merely summoned his enemies to him to make amends for the wrongs they had
done to the world. When Orlanth atoned for his actions, the gods defeated
chaos and left Hell. Presumably the gods then became distant, for no
explained reason, and no longer acted in the world. The last thing the Yelmic
gods want is for Orlanth's role to be emphasised and the Compromise to be
well known, but I personally think they are still bound by it, even if they
don't acknowledge it's existence.
As for the Brithini, I don't know enough about their background to make any comments.
Benedict Adamson:
> As a Western philosopher might phrase it:
>
> Take your average Heortling barbarian. He measures time by the rising
> and setting of the sun. So of course, in his thick skull, before The
> Dawn and the Cosmic Compromise that alternated day and night there was
> no time. More sophisticated peoples (that is, most of Glorantha's
> population) have enough sense to recognise that many other things mark
> the passage of time (for example, the passage of sand through an Hour
> Glass). Just because the oral tradition of some hairy barbarians can't
> remember whether event A followed event B does not mean that there was
> no cause of effect before the Lightbringers Quest.
Hmmm, after te Dawning, Time has been pretty much linear, with the possible exception of Sunstop. if C follows B which follows A then C follows A. During GodTime, things were sometimes linear as above, sometimes cyclical where C follows B follows a follows C and sometimes neither.
Simon
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