From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Wed 06 Dec 1995 - 14:29:24 EET
This is not a drill, this is me making a brief return to comment on:
[Andrew Behan and Peter Metcalfe query and discuss Vorumai Colour Magic]
Peter's summary is pretty to-the-point, although the exact answer to
Andrew's question is something the V-in would argue about endlessly
themselves, in my conception. But a fairly safe answer would be to say
"Vorumai Colour Magic (in whatever form) is more similar to Kralori
mysticism than it is to Theyalan Theism", if that's of any use to
anyone. (Hence I'd quibble that Peter's description makes the
approaches sound somewhat too theistic, though doubtless mainly analogy
was at work here.) Peter is again correct when he said we didn't come
up with any Actual Rules, but the general thought was that it'd be, in
essence, some unspecified variant on the Mysticism rules (themselves
a moving target, of course.)
But here's the much bigger But; not only are our group's thoughts
unofficial, from what I've seen of the Oceans book draft material,
they're Anti-Official. This material, which I can't discuss in detail
here lest Steve Martin Do My Head Right In differs in all sorts of
ways, down to linguistic structure, names of the gods (other than those
that appear in GoG, mercifully), the whole basic banana. Not that
Oceans is going to go into much detail about Vormain anyway, but enough
to cut the feet out from the Gang of Four's ideas. Oh well. Perhaps
the best thing is to wait until Oceans is out and retrofit some of
these notions to the Official Line. Though I'm told that Oceans may
possibly ignore Vormain entirely, leaving the possibility open for
trouble-makers such as myself to agitate for a different Vormain in
some later treatment.
Hope the above doesn't ruin too many days or tread on too many toes.
On a lighter note, can anyone remind me where History of the Lunar
Empire parts #0, #1, #5, and #6 appeared? I know some (but not all?)
appeared in Wyrm's Footnotes, some in Heroes, but something less
spectacularly OOP would be nice. If I'm onto the proverbial plums,
is anyone willing to be bribed into sending me copies? (Yo, Sam, you
have at least one of these, don't you?)
Slainte,
Alex.
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