From: David Weihe (weihe@danet.com)
Date: Thu 07 Aug 1997 - 02:20:26 EEST
In-Reply-To: from "Richard, Jeff" at Aug 05, 97 4:09 pm
> I hate to say this but the EWF was largely a Heortling Orlanthi creation
> - - and not a Dara Happan cultural creation at all! The Third Age
> Heortlings refuse to acknowledge their old cult of Orlanth Dragonfriend
> (sometimes called Orlanth the Dragon) - just as they try to blame
> Nysalor on the Dara Happans.
At least in your Glorantha, they don't. I have a feeling that they look
back fondly on *any* time that they were strong after the Lunars start
invading (let alone after they take over), especially in the city/trade
related parts of society (ducks, traders, universities, regimental
Humakti, etc). Certainly Argrath couldn't use EWF magics without *someone*
giving him backup, implying that some of the hostility that you claim had
died away.
> The EWF is also known as the Third Council - yet another indication of
> the problems those Heortlings cause when they relax their local bickering
> and unify to some extent.
Actually, it looks more like an indication of the problems that occur when
Clearly, DH magics or social views are poison to Orlanthi society, which
Heortlings and Dara Happans get together. The EWF was going along fine,
until it annexed the Dara Happans. Next thing you know, the dragons
decide that their powers are being misused and stage their own "Night
of the Long Knives". Likewise, the World Council was going along fine
until they join up with the Dara Happan Empire. Next thing you know, the
Council breaks into civil war over the God Project, and recreates
a Chaos God to "heal" the world.
otherwise CAN unify without problems. Argrath shouldn't have bothered
vivisecting the Red Moon, he should have staged a Final Solution to
The Dara Happan Problem. :-)
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