[Glorantha] Thanks, Prax and Windstop (more questions)

First of all, Peter, thanks for your answers to my Prax questions, some of it confirmed what I already thought I knew, and some of it set me straight on some misconceptions. Much obliged in each case.

[Oh, before I forget, Happy New Year Everyone!]

Secondly, a couple of questions about all this Windstop debate. I've not personally read Orlanth is Dead yet (too many books, so little time to read them!), so I only know about the events therein from lists like this, conversations with others, and the timeline on the Whitewall website (which is very interesting by the way, kudos to those involved in it). The first question seems a fairly obvious one, and I'm surprised no one else has asked it, the second is a result of my own preoccupation with Prax.

Greg, you've made it quite explicit that the Lunars specifically targeted Ernalda, in order to "put her to sleep", and that her incapacitation was not as a direct result of Orlanth's "Death". How did they do this? Were the attacks on Ernalda (if attacks is the right word) part and parcel of the attacks on Orlanth, or do they comprise a wholly separate sequence of events? Ordinarily I'd assume that this was just a gap in my own knowledge, but from my reading of the replies and discussions to your original Q&As post, no one else seems to know either. Is this the subject of an upcoming publication, or is the truth already out there?

Anyone: The areas affected by Windstop have been said to include Prax, though the winds in Prax come not from Orlanth, but the Storm Bull. Is there a right and wrong way to interpret this? I suppose that an Orlanthi would say that Urox is on some level either an aspect of, or at least a subject of Orlanth, and what affects Greater affects the Lesser also. I don't like that idea personally, I prefer to see the Bull as being more independent of Little Brother, so should I think of it more as Storm Bull being a spirit who was called upon to aid Orlanth in the fight at Whitewall, and who therefore shares in the consequences of the defeat? (Or indeed, none of the above...?)

Malk. Received on Sun 01 Jan 2006 - 12:28:43 EET