From: david@dboat.demon.co.uk
Date: Mon 06 May 1996 - 13:56:39 EEST
Ingo Tschinke
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>>3. The Lunar cults are represented in Sartar by competent, sincere,
>>and often inspirational proselytizers of their faith.
>Absolutly IMO. As I would like to make clear with my writing the
>Lunars undermine the virtues of the Orlanths through such impressing
>people.
Where is half this stuff comeing from. People seem to be throwing around a lot of
In any RW example you want to cite any religious based expansion has
thoughts on how the Lunars manage the occupation of Sartar. A good
example of this touchy feely Lunar conversion is an attempt to build
a Lunar temple on top of Orlanth holy spot. Another example occurs
where they have one of thiers goons massacre the local Wind Priests.
done so with the edge of a sword.
Now what are the Lunars offering. They offering an end to strife and
religious fuliment through helping the Goddess reach what ever goal
she is seeking. So what the end results in the clans, sorry I a
mean villages because you can kiss the clans goodbye, they will only
have meaning among Nobles. You have happy little villagers tilling
the soil so they can pay thier taxes to the state. Of course they
get to sacrifice their magical strength too, so the Goddess can get that new
kitchen or what ever the hell she really wants.
So instead of being proud of your bloodline and bickering with the
Well then what have the Bloody Lunars ever given us. Well a descent into
nasty Brown Horse clan down the road you get to go to the 7 Mothers
sponsored garden fete and argue about the size of your cabbages.
banality springs to mind. The Lunars, Romans and Soviets did not
destroy cultures for any mythical search for Utopia. The leaders did it
for there own personel gain. The Romans where proably better since
they destroyed the cultures under thier sandles twice. If the switch
to Christanity by the Empire was not a political move I do not know
what the hell was.
So sons of Vingkot beat your plough shears back into swords and lets really
make them see red. Conflict is progress, peace is stagnation.
Better Dead than Red.
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