From: Peter Metcalfe (P.Metcalfe@student.canterbury.ac.nz)
Date: Sun 28 Jan 1996 - 23:52:48 EET
Joerg Baumgartner:
Caveat: Bear in mind IMO what the Borists were like has little to do
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with their practices today.
>To me [the Borists] they seem like an adaption of Theyalan Councilic
>chaos-fighting monomyth grafted on the Malkioni or even Brithini lore
>flooding Ralios with the "liberation" from Gbaji.
My copy of La Toile D'Arachne Solara Issue 1 mentions that the Borist
After Arkat left, the history becomes very murky. Ralios or Safelster
The Borist faith seems to me to have be born as a reaction against this
When Arkat returns to set up the Dark Empire, he sees the Borists as
Heresy was propogated in 428 ST. This is at least five years after
Arkat cleansed all Ralios of the Lies of the Deciever. Since Arkat was
a fanatic, I assume that Safelster had become Malkionized when Ralios
was cleansed of the deciever.
(at least) seems to have unified and sent an army against Seshnela. A
Dara Happan Army led by Emperor Anirestyu then issued forth from Kartolin
and ravaged much of Ralios (there is a Ralian frieze of him besieging
Kasda which is near modern-day Delela). Thereupon Ralios collapsed
into numerous splintered states, each complaining about betrayal of
the cause by [insert name of neighbouring city states here] and trying
to hold of the Dara Happans and perhaps the Seshnegi at the same time.
turn of events. People are betraying and fighting all over the place.
Then Quantan van deen Borin preaches that everybody has been tainted by
Chaos and this is causing all the woe. The Good News is that he can
shrive them. To prove it, he can even show them the resulting gorp!
Imagine the evangelical appeal! I think in those days, the chaos
created was truely used as a scapegoat (with farmers stoning it, knights
hacking at it etc). This new faith manages to form a powerful state,
pious in the Malkioni Faith.
little more than 'Consorters with Chaos'. So he stomps on it hard and
the Borists have been an underground faith ever since.
>Borin lies in the border area between the Korioni and the Vustri tribal
>regions. The Korioni were members of the Dari Alliance, the Vustri
>traditional enemies. Since Borin is somewhat lowland, but among the
>hill, I suppose that Dorastan settlers had taken hold there, too. This
>mixture of cultures had been stable during Nysalor's reign, and IMO
>were typical for the cult of Orlanth introduced by Lokamayadon.
Borin is part of the Korioni people IMO. The land labelled Vustria
I don't think the Safelstrans were as theistic as the Kerofini
in the G:LotHW is so wild and sparse that hardly anybody lives there.
Vustria also encompasses the eastern wilds and I presume that the
river valleys there were the ones settled by the Dorastan immigrants.
However most of Ralios is ruled by the Dari Kingdom during Khorzanelm's
reign which does suggest that the influence of the Dorastan Settlers
was not great.
Orlanthi. The LoT 'Who was Arkat' from the Lunar PoV gives
Lokaymadon far too great an influence in Ralios (to insert a Lunar
Slant that the Orlanthi are unreliable). The other polemics in
LoT (not even the Orlanthi!) never even mention him. I'm not even
sure that Orlanth was worshipped by the Dari Kingdom. Of course,
I'd know better if the writers of the Broken Council could release
their writeups of what the various countries were like...
The Fortunate Succession does state that (p78) Nysalor taught 'the
Ralians that thought was not the only reality; that their Laws were
not Eternal Truths; and that instinct was neither good or evil'. I
suspect the Dari Kingdom revered the Gods but was 'less close' to them
than the Kerofini, believing them to be expressions of the One God
[Insert Ralian Remote Sky God Name here]. In fact pretty much
like the Henotheist Church today.
>Was Tapping an issue to the 1st Age Hrestoli?
The True Hrestroli Way of 200 ST are said to 'outlaws all Tapping'.
So I guess this makes the Castle Coast Flunkies who Tap peasants
degenerates and God Learners to boot. ;-)
To Tap or not to Tap may have been a thorny theological question
before the Sunstop. When the Riddlers came, such questions must
have paled into significance.
During the actual war, I suppose the Seshnegi deplored it at first
then were forced to adopt it and then praticed it with wild
enthusiasm. Much like the Allies attitude to carpet-bombing during
World War II. 'The Vampire Kings practiced many abominations upon us.
Surely we can't Tap them?'
Aussies:
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We want more full writeups about what happened at the CON.
- --Peter Metcalfe
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