From: Nils Weinander (niwe@ein.ericsson.se)
Date: Tue 04 Jun 1996 - 16:53:49 EEST
Arkat (disguised as John Brown):
>here is my idea of how the creation of the five elemental
>weapons went:
>
> The Elemental Weapons
>
>Darkness: Nakala's Mace (The Black Mace) which was made of Lead
>Water: Trident of Zaramaka (Magasta's Tongue) which was made of
> Aluminum
>Earth: Staff of Ga (The Staff of Law) which was made of Copper
>Fire/Sky: Aether's Spear (The Firelance) which was made of Gold
>Air: Sword of Umath (The Windsword) which was made of Silver
Shouldn't the Earth weapon be an axe? In one of our old campaigns,
the elemental weapon of Earth was Balastor's axe, of Pavis fame.
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Over to Teshnos!
Peter M:
>9) Nils W. has had some ideas about how the Teshnans order their
>society. Basically it's Hindu-like with a caste of untouchables
>who do all the dirty jobs that would befoul someone's lifeflame.
OK, here's the basics of my theory. In some distant past, Teshnos
was inhabited by earth worshipping wareran humans. Their main deity
was Teshna, land goddess of Teshnos. The land was then invaded by
sky worshipping kralori humans from Vithela.
The invaders had three castes: Morning, the peasants who worshipped
Solf (Lodril); Noon, the warriors who worshipped Somash (Yelm) and
Evening, the holy men who worshipped Zitro Argon (Dayzatar).
The original teshnans were oppressed and form a fourth caste, Night.
They are not allowed to worship their old gods. This provides the
additional problem that there is no god who gives the Teshnans
Bless Crops. I think it was Peter or Joerg who suggested that the
teshnans turn to their alies, the embyli of the Fethlon jungle for
fertility magic.
The Night caste cannot own any property and may not use metal tools.
Really oppressive land-owners don't even allow their nighters to
cook their food or use fire in any way.
However, the original people and the invaders have mixed to some
degree, so the modern teshnans are a wareran/kralori mix racially.
The castes and the cults have changed a lot and one important
cult has been added: Calyz the firebringer. I see Calyz as a
cultural hero, a deified human who learned the secret of firemaking
during the greater darkness.
The more radical priests of Calyz says that he is a god for all
people, regardless of caste and want to introduce the cult to the
Night caste. Conservative teshnans are duly horrified at the thought.
The land-owning peasants of today (the Morning caste) are less
than happy to worship the lazy and debauched Solf, so they mostly
turn to Calyz instead.
Harstar the rebel probably promises reforms and more freedom for
the Night caste in return for their loyalty.
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