[Glorantha] Re: IFWW doesn't have to be pan-Gloranthan

In message <20060628195429.80727.qmail@web42108.mail.mud.yahoo.com> David Weihe writes:

>That seems to have been lost by the start of the Second Age, if not by
>when the Council moved to Dorastor. Nowdays (ie., Third Age) the point
>is the Everyman *I* Fought, which is similar to every other area's
>myth, even the Talastari. Possibly the old form is something for
>Argrath to rediscover or re-emphasize? Certainly the idea that,
>against Chaos, differences are unimportant, would be useful for a long
>crusade/jihad against a notably Chaos-using culture like the Lunars.

While I think the rebel leaders would *like* to use the myth of IFWW to create a grand alliance against Lunar Chaos I don't think it works. The Lunar Empire isn't chaotic itself, the leadership merely uses chaos when it suits them and a lot of groups who fought against chaos then are fighting for the Lunars now. Indeed from a solar point of view they can argue that the Heortling rebels are bringing back chaos as Orlanth did in myth so fighting them is fighting chaos - why wait until the world is nearly destroyed before fixing the problem?

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