From: David Weihe (weihe@danet.com)
Date: Thu 24 Apr 1997 - 19:52:51 EEST
> From: Peter Metcalfe <P.Metcalfe@student.canterbury.ac.nz>
>
> Thomas Gottschall:
> >Second, we Telmori are no chaotics ! We were cursed by Gbaji because we
> >fought agains him. But we lost and thus we shall remain cursed and turn to
> >manwolves every wildday.
>
> So Talor was really Gbaji in disguise?
But wasn't EVERYONE? :-) I wonder if Gbaji doesn't get thrown around like
The more likely answer is just that the Sartar Telmori have "rewritten"
"Anti-Christ" was during the Reformation -- they probably carry equal
emotional weight, by the 1600s (either dating scheme).
their oral history to have themselves on the "right" side -- look what
claiming to worship Yelm's Bane has done for the Orlanthi whenever the
Solars have been powerful.
Claiming that Gbaji cursed them probably lets the Telmori be as acceptable
to the Orlanthi as the Chaos-cursed Cave Trolls are to the rest of Uz. It
least gives a rationalization to stop some attacks, and I doubt that the
Sartarites bothered to keep records of what really happened, especially
since Talor attacked Dorastor from a different direction entirely. The
Ralians may claim differently, but why believe the outlanders over the
locals, even if they are dangerous one night a week.
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