From: Michael Cule (mikec@room3b.demon.co.uk)
Date: Thu 01 Aug 1996 - 00:00:49 EEST
Carl Fink he say:
> Inspired by Lewis but not responding to him, I've just noticed
> something - Orlanth seems to encourage his followers to emulate his
> greatest quest, the Seeking of the Sun.
>
> The Red Goddess, contrariwise, seems to *forbid* her servants to
> emulate her mysterious Quest to gain divinity. It's possible that
> Lunars do this all the time, of course, but I haven't seen anything
> published on it. Is this a real difference?
I think that Orlanthi and the Lunars are the two great HeroQuesting cultures
of Third Age Glorantha and they are fighting a huge 'turf war' for control of
the GodPlane.
Read THE ENTEKOSIAD for more details of how Lunar HeroQuesters (called T&Jers
== Travellers and Journeyers) seek out the mysteries of the Goddess.
And what do you think Jar-Eel the Razoress is? Chopped liver?
> I suspect that if a Dara Happan were to ask Yelm directly, Yelm would
> say "Yes, my servant, I did agree with the Storm King to permit his
> continued raging, in order to preserve the World."
>
> And that Solar Priest would *lie* about it forever after.
I'm with you on this one! The Sun worshippers idea of Truth is: anything that
serves Yelm and maintains my social position....
A quote from my current game which features a group of Orlanthi adventures
shipwrecked in Loskalm and arguing theology with the locals:
ANNOYED WIZARD: Of course it's important! You want to go to Solace in Glory,
don't you?
PUZZLED HUMAKTI: We want to go to Corflu first. It's on the way.....
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Michael Cule
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