[Glorantha] Re: Why Sartar fell

>The House of Sartar had been heroes of Change, Storm and Trade. The
grim
>time of Salinarg, with his Household of Death, may have alienated and
>depressed the less warlike clans. When one sends sons and daughters to
>march in the tune of Humakt, one doesn't expect many of them to come
back.
>
> -Adept
>
>Thinker, dreamer and adventurer

I agree with this, I've always thought that Salinarg and the Household of Death was a betrayal of the ideals and magic of the original Sartar and that over time, you can see his heirs move away from his ideology to a much more traditional model of kingship and rule and that this was the root cause of the fall of the principality. The magics which held
the principality together had been undermined, magics which were not based in warfare and death.

It's hard to imagine, the original Sartar swearing deadly oaths to Humakt
and then charging with all his forces into the Lunar Empire. How he would
have handled them I'm not sure, but it would have been a much more original solution than trying to come up with a deadlier weapon like Salinarg
and his children did.

cheers

Martin

Dr. Martin Dick
Lecturer
School of Business Information Technology RMIT Business
RMIT University Received on Thu 28 Sep 2006 - 02:22:06 EEST