From: nilsw@ibm.net
Date: Mon 29 Jul 1996 - 20:50:35 EEST
David Dunham:
>In my pre-Dawn Peloria
><http://www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha/oroninela.html>, there aren't
>really spells either (you'd sing or dance, and being part of a group gave
>you more effects). My system is still incomplete, but when a player
>complained that spirit magic was easier, I knew I was on the right track.
>Primitive magic (and I don't mean magic of primitive people) *should* be
>less advanced.
OK, if you had equated "primitive magic" with "magic of primitive
people" I would have disagreed immediately, since there is no reason
why a people with a "primitive" material culture should have less
shamanic or divine magic. However, I do have one question, which
people have this primitive magic and why?
The examples, Hsunchen and pre-dawn Pelorians seem like "primitive"
people in the material sense and I can't see why there myths should be
less deep or their knowledge of the spirit world less profound. Rather
on the contrary, their low technological could give a stronger
impetus to delve deeply into the mysteries of the Otherworld than is
present in sophisticated, and definitely highly magically able, third
age cultures like the western and the Kralorelan.
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