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> > First, please read Greg's "Dragon Pantheon" article in WWW
> > (Old Wyrm's Footnote). And mediate about the meaning of
> > hidden secret of "War between Giants and Dragons".
>
> Read the Annilla cult in Troll Gods for a partial reply to this.

And it deepened mystery.

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> > Outsiders cannot discern the difference between true
> > dragons and false dragons (maybe serpents, failed dragonewts
> > or dragonspawns, failed EWF or Kralori Mystic) of their short
> > time observation.
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> There are a few easy tests. If it doesn't control the entire magic
> around itself, it is most unlikely a true dragon. That's a simple test
> for transcendence...

And some mystics choose to take a hit for their mystical discipline, others manifest themselves for helping his country men as martial artists. No, I don't think Game Term from HW and HQ explains something the intrigued draconic mystery in Glorantha.

And Greg said a sort of sentence, "Mysticism can be only understandable through experience....."

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> > And on the contrary of other Otherworld Entities with Great
> > Power, Dragons don't show weakness (penalty?) inside of
> > Middle World with physical and magical amount of
> > vastness.
>
> Wait a moment: every dragon has a weakness. That's the secret about
> Dragonslaying.

On the contrary of my former sentence, it told about Alien World Penalties in HW Game Term. And "weakness" derived from Orvanshagor cult description is my one of main purpose to write about Alakoring (anti-draconic) from the point of view of the skald of Argrath's court (pro-draconic). From the POV of pro draconic sympathizers, it is UTUMA IMHO.

> > And as you know, dragons sometimes divide oneself by
> > Utuma, combined (be eaten) to other (see End of Ingolf's
> > Saga and "Wyter" Drang the Diamond Storm) or revive from
> > death without any causation. (See Dragon Sun in
> > Genertela Box: Glorantha and Sh'hakarzeel (Mover of
> > Heaven) in Argrath's Saga)
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> That's somewhat similar to Orlanth's self fragmenting in 48 pieces at
> the Battle of Stormfall. Dragons, Vampires, Heroes and Gods don't
> necessarily stay dead just because they have been killed.
>

Maybe, but it is before the Time, God Age, there is no clear definition between life and death in that time, Orlanthi believes God Age and Time are different, (and Chaos (Lunars?) and Dragon might not believe it.)

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> You list a lot of "things with draconic nature" or shape. Especially
> rivers and similar serpents. I think this application of the term
> "draconic" goes too far.
>

It might be Aroka is the symbolization of Water Power, from the POV of Malkioni Euhemeristic Analyzation. (Every false gods are former "Erasanchula" of Danmalastan) and as I said this list is very arbitrary, I unintentionally criticized David's Hero List for he pick up and drop arbitrarily historical characters.

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> IMO the EWF was about manifestation magic - similar to Vithelan dream
> magic or dream dragons, or the Dragon's Eye. Groups of humans combined
> their draconic parts to form a draconic entity capable of
> manifestations. Drang was IMO the result of the communal effort of the
> draconic Orlanth priests.

I agree with you about it.

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> Alakoring slaying Drang has some similarity to Odayla killing the Storm
> Bear. A partial Utuma of storm vs. storm. Whether Alakoring minded the
> lesson, I don't know. After Tobosta, he didn'T have the chance to act on
> them, anyways.
>

I would rather like to make such feat attached to the High King Verenmars and his followers, gods versus beasts, but I think I understand what you mean.

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