Isn't one of the fascinating things about Glorantha that it has cultures which are complex and ambiguous enough to be campaign villains or heroes -- though the latter (and possibly also the former?) will probably be flawed and/or ambiguous, as well as heroic (or villainous). It is famously true of the Lunars -- often, but not always, an 'evil Empire' -- and some have made it true of Humakt. There is a certain amount which is unlovely about the Rokari, but I would nevertheless hesitate to say that they are evil.
Why not have a Loskalm which faces both ways too? Especially for a society which could be forgiven for seeing its fate in the early 17th Century ST as the horrible choice between preserving its ideology and preserving its physical existence?
Final thought -- who are the heroes of the tale in which the Loskalmi are Teutonic Knights in the Alexander Nevsky mould?
Richard Hayes
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> > hcarteau_at_6dU9OHdHChvuTrfEj5qNzgOUyZwXJ5Jyqn_UfRA3EsnDhqsTqqo25Sd-a01KYOAmTjWD_hdf18eyYw.yahoo.invalid <mailto:hcarteau%40free.fr> wrote:
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> > > Yes, I had thought about doing this using indeed communist propaganda,
> > > but also nazi institutions (hitlerjungend, etc), architecture and
> > > "art", but I didn't dare write it. Notice on Jeff's frieze the asexual
> > > bodies, expressionless faces, etc : pure nazi/commie stuff. The
> > > loskalmi, whom I liked greatly before I began walking the path of
> > > enlightenement with Jeff, are becoming increasingly creepier to me and
> > > might become my next favorite Bad Guys.
> > >
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> > See, this is what I don't like about the "new" view of Loskalm. I don't
> > know whether Greg and Jeff intended readers to get a Nazi/Stalinist vibe
> > about Loskalm (I'd guess not, but you never know), but the fact that
> > people do, whether or not they were supposed to, destroys the point of
> > them to me. It's not "ruined" my Glorantha, or anything, but only
> > because I'll ignore it :)
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> Actually, I get that vibe more about the "old" view of Loskalm than the
> new...
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Interesting... but a valid criticism, nonetheless.
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