From: Durupt Jean (durupt@cc.ec-lyon.fr)
Date: Thu 20 Mar 1997 - 10:06:43 EET
Hi all
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underwater cities
I don't think that there is carbon dioxyde on Glorantha.
When someone breaths, he produces stale air. By contact
with free air it becomes fresh (breathable) air.
Murthdrya is the mother of the sea plants and the blue elves.
Since the blue elves are water breather, I don't think that
sea plants can be used to transform stale air into fresh air.
But some plants store gas in their leaves so that the leaves
float. It is possible that in Glorantha, these plants are
harvested for fresh air.
Magasta kept Vadrus prisonner underwater. I think that when
mermen want to build a fixed city, they do a great ritual
that emulates this. With this ritual, they have a permanent
connection with free air even under the surface of the sea.
I picture the underwater cities as a collection of domes
with watery lanes on the bottom so that mermen can swimm
inside their cities.
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mermen mobile home
The mermen races have to live mostly underwater (tales 10).
A mobile home allows a merman, to store things, to sleep underwater
with relative safety (killer whales are said to hunt them), and if
he is so holy to never again go to the surface.
When a merman wants to move it, he may:
They are unaffected by the Closing since they don't have to go
- - pull it himself
- - use a draft sea creature, like a human would use an ox to
pull his wagon
- - bind an undine to it, and command it to move
to the surface. There is a schnorkel to transform stale air
into fresh air.
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Who is Furalor? What is her role in the society?
In Glorantha:Genertela, the prince of the elephants is said to have
Teshnos
Is it possible that the Teshnans practice slash and burn agriculture?
With this technique, a fiery death would mean fertility for the
land.
competent troops.
I think he has the only soldiers trained to fight in hand to hand
combat, and that he is alone in using war elephants.
All the other soldiers are trained at mass archery IMO, since this
technique has much to do with fate. No wonder they are qualified
as weak by the Praxians (or the Vormaini when they come), they are
unable to whistand a mounted charge.
What is worse for Teshnos is that the competent troops are only
a tiny part of the army.
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What is a gygaxesque polearm ?
Vadeli
Red captain
I think that besides being chained, the red captain of a brown vadeli
ship is mute (by whatever mean) and kept in a gloomy spot so that
when the browns ask his opinion any sound or move he does can be
translated as "I agree".
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When he was dicovered by the Jrustreli, he was a fire god of burning
Tanian
water. His summoning created the sea of fire. Later, the Jrustreli
changed him in a water god controling fire.
What would happen if someone summoned him around 1620?
Peace
Jean
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