[Glorantha] Re: Fimbulwinter

Peter Metcalfe

  >Robert Davis:
>>Sure thedecision was made by others. But OiD paints the damage done by the
>>fimbulwinter to be catastrophic, which it clearly can't have been, can it?
>
>>We are talking about folk here who have next to no magic in the
>>equivalent of an
>>arctic winter (-40) during the day, or so I havce heard it rumoured elsewhere.
>
> The Russians and the Eskimos survive similar conditions without any magic
> so I don't think it's as calamitous as the Black Death. There will be some
> significant losses but I think they are on the scale of 5%. If the
> Fimbulwinter were to persist for another year then I would see largescale losses
> occurring.

  Exactly. It may seem really bad to the participants, but any clan that has made some preparations against famine should survive it relatively easily. If they haven't stored food and don't have plentiful fuel available then they might struggle a bit, but certainly not as much as in ages past. The elderly, very young or infirm are the likeliest casualties, as usual, the rest of the people should be OK.    

  Clearly, it is not catastrophic. Had it not been fixed, it might have been. The Lunars experience something similar later on when Argrath beats up the Kalikos Hero and sets a long winter on the Pentians in the Lunar Empire, to trap Sheng Seleris. That is inconvenient, but not that bad.         Received on Tue 26 Sep 2006 - 12:36:09 EEST