From: ANDOVER@delphi.com
Date: Thu 14 Nov 1996 - 01:17:46 EET
I've been busy in the "real world" (if you consider American elections
real) for the past few weeks, so I haven't had time to keep up with
all the twists & turns of the Time debate, or its natural slopping over
into the "nature of the Gods" question.
In my campaigns, the definition of Time is that given by Gollum in the
Hobbit: "This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, treese, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down."
Time is the child born after Arachne Solara consumes the God of Entropy,
Kajabor. "Before time" means "before entropy." It does not mean that
there was not cause-and-effect, nor chronology. The Compromise froze
the Gods in the patterns that existed "before Time" which left them immune
to the "great Fear" of total annihilation but also prevented them from
acting any more. Freedom from the destruction of entropy could only
be achieved by giving up freedom altogether -- they chose preservation
over change.
There's a price for this -- paid not only by the Gods but also by all
Gloranthans -- the "snap-back" against every attempt to change Glorantha,
whether by Nysalor, the God Learners, the EWF or the Lunars is a re-enactment
of the choice of Law (or Stasis) over Chaos (or change).
PFbE[ME
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