On 22/02/2012, at 3:59 PM, Peter Metcalfe wrote:
> On 2/22/2012 8:22 PM, David Cake wrote:
>> On 22/02/2012, at 12:19 PM, Peter Metcalfe wrote: >>
>>> The larger flaw in your theory is that the Cannibal Cult are in Prax >>> while the Pendali are in Seshnela. >> That flaw is only there if you didn't read the source you quoted yesterday >> "The cannibal cult has been independently discovered across Glorantha. In many places where evil ghosts are powerful, these anthropophagic practices have arisen." (TORM #9)
I appreciate your efforts to interpret 'many' to mean 'three', but I remain unconvinced.
> And furthermore I don't believe that an independent invention will yield
> exactly the same cult - I expect them to be as different as Lodril, Solf
> and Balumbasta.
Sure. But it is not as if anyone is saying they would be alike in every detail - just two pretty basic practices, feeding ghosts and eating people (just like Lodril, Solf and Balumbasta are all volcanoes with a side order of hedonism).
Cheers David
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