From: Brian Newman (bnewman@3rdplanet.com)
Date: Thu 04 Jul 1996 - 01:41:32 EEST
In Glorantha Digest Volume 03 : Number 003,
Peter Metcalfe <P.Metcalfe@student.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> IMO the Glowline is caused by the Temples actually manifesting the
> Lunar Glow upon earth. They gain their powers from the Red Moon
> but are also reliant on synergistic radiations from Glamour (perhaps
> the orientation of the moonrock prism to turn [I almost said phase
> - -shift] the lunar radiations from its current state to Full Moon
> Radiation?).
>
> I have also read somewhere that doubts are cast that the Glowline
> _simply_ confers the ability to cast Lunar Magic at fullstrength.
> I think that the effects of the Glowline would be much stronger at
> Glamour than Tarsh. [...]
I've seen lots of good comments on this subject lately.
IMG, the Red Moon hovers over the crater at a constant height (I don't
know exactly how high and I haven't tried to figure it out yet, but
it's high enough to be seen from as far away as Pavis). At
full Full phase, it sits with its full half-globe pointed down into the
crater. At that point, when it is at its fullest over Glamour, it would
be seen as about 3/4 full over Tarsh and almost that over Pavis.
The Red Moon's axis is aligned east-west, with its North pole facing
east, so that, when it turns, the crescent appears at the top of the moon
and waxes down, the waning crescent (Crescent-Go) being at the bottom of
the moon's sphere.
Inside the Glowline, IMG, the moon always glows red to at least *some*
degree, even when totally New, and brighter than outside the Glowline
when full. I treat the effects of the moon's phase on Lunar magic inside
the Glowline as less and less of a reduction from Full the further toward
Glamour it is. Thus, in Glamour and nearby, Lunar magic is always
treated as if the moon is full; in Mirin's Cross, a half-moon is like a
full moon and a crescent like a half; in Tarsh, a crescent is like a 1/4,
a 1/4 like a 1/2, and a 1/2 like a 3/4.
Sure, it's not strictly by any one Gloranthan source material, but it
does combine ideas from all of them.
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