[Glorantha] Naphta and Coal in Glorantha

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20>
Date: Tue May 23 14:00:12 2006

> I just started wondering about whether Glorantha has
> oil (and coal).

> So what is oil in Glorantha? Even here oil is
> sometimes poetically called
> "ancient sunlight", so in Glorantha oil is propably
> the blood of Yelm,
> spilled when he was killed and trapped underground.

FWIW (not much) The Secret History of Sun County contained quite a lot of oil/Dallas jokes, and a suggestion that the "black gold" from which the Goldbreath family get their wealth is in fact oil.

I don't like the idea much myself, but others may differ.
http://jane-williams.me.uk/glorantha/sc/sc_sh_01.cfm

http://jane-williams.me.uk/glorantha/sc/sc_southfork.cfm

http://jane-williams.me.uk/glorantha/sc/sc_blackgold.cfm                                   

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