From: Stephen Martin (ilium@juno.com)
Date: Sun 24 Aug 1997 - 01:18:34 EEST
I do not offer the following as a judgement on Hasni, since whatever time
you need to run a campaign is the best time scale.
In Diff Worlds 28 Greg Stafford said that his campaign generally
progressed one season in Glorantha per RW month. Thus, two years of RQ
play would equal about 5 years of game time.
Whether Greg actually _kept_ that timescale I don't know. And, his
preference for a rapid campaign makes sense if you consider that this is
about the time he was working on Pendragon, whose timescale is even
faster.
"Richard, Jeff" <Jeff.Richard@metrokc.gov>
>I'm not Pam, but I am the GM for ToDP - so I am probably a good person
Head-taking Orlanthi
>head-takers (unlike the Ralians, maybe the Talastari and probably the
>Harandings). Another little fact - the Heortlings are not kilt wearers
>but they are horse-riders.
While most Sartarites are not head-takers now, I will differ from Jeff
and assert that they were in the past. No, I take that back -- some of
them still are in the 1620's. Look at the Dragon Pass boardgame -- one of
the native Sartarite units is called Headhunters. Look at the god Than,
whose mythos specifically mentions Ginijji in the original write-up -- he
is a headhunter. Nick Brooke's story about Mister Fox implies
headhunting, and I believe this was intentional.
I believe that one of the original Dragon Pass tribes were active
headhunters in the Darkness, and that at least a clan or two has kept
this tradition ever since. I also believe that the chaos entity Than
originated not as some chaotic entity in the Darkness, but as an Orlanthi
headhunter who eventually went too far, and became chaotic himself. It is
a fine line, using a foe's head as a magic weapon, and using it as a
chaotic magic weapon.
Southpath
In response to Andrew Bean's questions about the Southpath, this is not
something which I know. This is the model Greg told me he wanted for the
Southpath, and it fits with the descriptions in Elder Secrets and GRoY.
Let's see, myths can be almost anything, keeping in mind that 99.99% of
the people of Gloranthan do not realize that this is the case -- they see
the planet rise, and they see the planet set, and few of them know how it
works. All they know is that these planets rise within a specific area of
the sky; many of them will have realized that the starting point is
moving at a regular speed.
They know that these planets usually set within a fairly large area, but
sometimes they set to the south or north of this area. Some of them may
have figured out that the area moves, but only a couple of select small
groups have figured out that there is a pattern to it, and only one of
those groups has figured out the pattern with enough accuracy to predict
its movements.
I suppose a couple hundred crystal domes, moving in the proper rotations,
could cause this physically. I don't much care about that aspect, myself.
Birds and Bats
I think the current GRoY mythologies heavily imply that bats were birds
who betrayed Yelm. It can certainly be interpreted that way, anyways.
I don't think trolls would believe bats were birds originally -- they
would probably say that birds were bats who betrayed the darkness and
decided to hunt/fly during the daytime. Ducks in reverse -- they betrayed
the Darkness to worship Yelm, and were cursed to no longer be able to see
in the Dark. Some of them realized their errors later, and after a time
of proving their devotion to the dark, were given back their ability to
see in the Dark. Owls, for example.
Don't know what trolls would say about cats, though -- they probably
stole the ability to see in the dark.
Stephen Martin
ilium@juno.com
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