[Glorantha] Re: Praxian Names

Here is a link to the Basmol as Eiritha's Death story I referred to earlier: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Realm/5545/mything/basmol.html

There are a few differences between it and my understanding of Canon (Waha! kills Basmol, not Tada! frex), but I like it. Not sure I buy the idea of Waha getting the Peaceful Cut from Basmol, but it makes a certain kind of sense from the Basmoli POV from which the story is narrated. Anyway, I liked it.

> I thought that was a lot later on in the mythos, but I'm probably wrong.

I'm not going to back or gainsay you Simon, it's all Godtime anyway isn't it? So sequences may be less linear than the appear!   

> Praxians would not necessarily distinguish between the various sub-types
> of trolls.

I'd be astonished if they did, though if they met a Mistress Race Troll and survived the encounter, I bet they'd recognise the next one they met! Generally, I think they would recognise the difference between trolls and trollkin (accepting there may be grey area cases), because trollkin are not just trolls on a smaller scale, but stunted and runty.

> But, they would see two types of trolls - big trolls and stunty little
> ones that the big ones bully and push around.

'Zackly.

> Weren't trollkin called goblins somewhere? Perhaps Praxians have a
> completely different name for them.

Which is what I wondered in the first place! :-)    

> Personally, I think it overcomplicates things having several names for the
> same creature, but if that's what people want then it's their game.

Actually, it's something I like about them. There is a tendency is SF and fantasy to have non-human races as homogenous lumps, making the variation and multi-racial nature present in humanity massively incongruous. To an outsider, they still look like homogenous lumps ("They all look the same to me!") but minor differences are a big deal to those within a society.

Cheers -

Malk.     Received on Tue 18 Jul 2006 - 12:00:53 EEST