Peter Metcalfe (author of the Glorantha book we were reading on my PC last night) adds...
>
> On 10/17/2011 2:12 PM, chris jensen romer wrote:
> > One thing that intrigues us is the suggestion they were actively
> involved with, if not the actual sponsors of the Nysalor Project and
> Bright Empire. Is this true?
>
> Yes. The Orlanthi and the Trolls were more upset by their involvement
> in the God Project than the actual God Project itself.
>
> > By the time of Kavanyar have they renounced Nysalor, and accepted he
> was Gbaji (they are being menaced by chaos from Dorastor in 911/912
> especially as I recall?) or do they still have some sympathy for
> Nysalor, and is he worshipped at all in the Second Age?
>
> No, the Dara Happans have not renounced Nysalor. Gbaji is that evil
> troll westerners call Arkat and the horrors from Dorastor are his fault,
> not Nysalor's. Nysalor is dead and cannot be worshipped. However his
> teachings live on. The Great Emperor Karvanyar has used these teachings
> to deal mortal blows to the Dragons but other Dara Happans are queasy
> about the insanity they can cause (and they have waged purges against
> the Illuminates in past centuries.
>
> > Was Dara Happa part of the Bright Empire?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Also, may as well ask while at it - Dara Happans do not in the Second
> Age Heroquest.
>
> That's not quite true. They don't heroquest in the God Learner fashion,
> ie exploit the insights shown by Arkat and Harmast primarily because
> they have never been exposed to them. They have their own traditional
> rituals that are Heroquests (such as the Yuthappan Star Towers) .
>
> > Oh, and he asked if his sage from the Second age would have heard of
> any of the Celestial Court, or if the idea of anything predating Yelm
> is heresy? I have not checked GroY to see what it says ont he matter
> yet though.
>
> The Dara Happans know of the ten membered Celestial Court with Aether
> Primolt at its head. The Celestial Court retired to allow Yelm to rule
> the Cosmos. They also know that smelly barbarians in Dragon Pass,
> Carmania and other places have different names for these deities and
> deny Yelm's divine authority. As all good thinking people know, only
> the Dara Happans have the truth which is why they are Dara Happans and
> not, say, unwashed savages,
>
> --Peter Metcalfe
>
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