[Glorantha] Landscaping with dragons

> For my part, don't think of them as your Smaug, that's the dream dragon
> all sleek with scales and bat wings, but think of them as pieces of the
> landscape that form into a dragon shape, but crudely and clearly still
> made from rocks and boulders, covered in dirt and trees that tumbles
> from thier sides etc.
> <snip>
> Ian Cooper

That's the part I like. The true dragons are the equivalent of gods, yet reside in the mundane world. It's quite neat that they slumber as parts of the world; hills, mountains and even rivers. Heck, with the dual nature of the heortling gods (see inner dragon) isn't there some implications that Kero Fin herself may be a dragon?

The problem is if they are still supposed to be in the same titanic scale when awake and active in the mundane world.

If I ever need to have Orlanth stride the mundane world (it could happen) it won't be as a man ten miles long. It will be as a titanic man possibly four meters (~15 feet) tall. Similarily, there won't be any giants that are tens of meters long in my GLorantha...

Unless. Gonn Orta (or a similar giant, or a true dragon) would decide to fight the Crimson Bat then the battle propably would look like a Godzilla movie to any mortal seeing it, with the both combatants in the same scale.

        -Adept Received on Thu 29 Jun 2006 - 13:17:19 EEST