From: Sandy Petersen (sandyp@idgecko.idsoftware.com)
Date: Tue 10 Sep 1996 - 00:51:10 EEST
Ian Gorlick
>Those intelligent otters make me worry about other possibilities. An
>intelligent otter might be a destructive prankster but an
>intelligent marten or fisher would be a threat to lots of livestock
>and an intelligent wolverine would be a deadly threat to humans. Got
>any of those up in the hills?
Remember that the intelligent otters are also gigantic in
size -- up to a 50k or even more.
Greg has posited, and I concur, that every species of
creature in Glorantha has occasional fully-intelligent and/or more
magical members. More rare with some species than others.
WOLVERINES IN GLORANTHA: their obvious habitat is North Pent, the
Kingdom of Ignorance, Fronela, Erigia, Redlands, the Blue Moon
Plateau, etc.. They're not particularly a mountain animal, so I doubt
they inhabit the southern Rockwoods. And I'm sure that certain areas
have their legends of intelligent skunk-bears. My theory is that
there have to be tribes of Wolverine hsunchen in the KoI and Fronela,
both. But not very numerous, one hopes.
Peter M.
>Maniria Is 90 to 95% theistic IMO. The remainder are the Rokari in
There's also the question as to whether trolls or elves can
>Heortland and the Marcher Barons as well as the People Whom God
>Forgot.
I believe that much of Wenelia is inhabited by shamanic
cultures, though they are also Orlanthi. I.e., an Orlanth-equivalent
is worshiped in a shamanic manner. And I also believe that the border
between shamanism and theism rather tends to break down here.
Finally, Pralorela is still inhabited by numbers of deer-people, who
are most definitely non-theistic.
really be considered "theists".
Sandy
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