[Glorantha] Re: Theyalan Missionaries

Jane

> > But these poor refugees in the Darkness did not know that the
>> fruit was edible
>> or that it was safe to eat, or heck, didn't even know that it
>> might not eat them.
>
>Yes, they did. Those nice missionaries had just told them, and (presumably)
>proved it by eating some.

That proves nothing. You can smack your lips all you like over mushrooms, I'm still not eating them. You obviously made some deal with the dead, in order to gain the power of eating the mushrooms that sprout from dead trees.

>to find ripe fruit, already knowing what
>it looked like and that it was safe, they apparently needed magic

"They" of course means the missionaries. (No, I'm not being snide -- they would be the ones who taught the Elmal verses they knew and used.) This is Glorantha -- who WOULDN'T use magic if they could? (Heck, I could use some magic to detect truly ripe fruit at the supermarket.)

I've got to ask Elise about some of the damaged cultures she's read about. I think in our world, they don't last long -- a more functional one can easily overwhelm them (as indeed the Hagolings were).

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