From: Peter Metcalfe (metcalph@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri 12 Sep 1997 - 14:05:26 EEST
David Cake:
>After all, the Loper People are blue. It seems pretty logical
>that they might decend from one of the other blue races, and
>the Veldang seem the most likely candidate.
So who are the Pelorians descended from? The Orlanthi,
the Malkioni and the Ralians? Who are the Teshans
descended from? It may seem logical for their to
be some relationships between any number of blue
folk but that does not justify making explicit and
obvious links which turn glorantha into a patchwork
quilt of cookie-cutter cults.
>I certainly think having the Loper people linked with the
>Veldang of Pamaltela (land of whacky wildlife) seems more
>plausible than to link them with the Vadeli, Waertagi, or
>Pelorian Blues (and please, not another indepedendent blue
>race).
Why are you so against culturally seperate which is
what I presume you mean by 'independant' blue races
considering that glorantha is full of numerous distinct
cultures for each of the other major races (Agimor:
Doraddi, Fonritan, Masloi; Kralor: East Isles, Kralorela,
Vormain). I do not consider the Pelorian Blue People
nor the Vadeli Blueskins nor the Teleosan Blue Folk to
be Veldang.
The Fonritan Veldang main cultural hallmarks seems
to be ships (the warsails of Fonrit) and the
invisibility (the invisible fleet that destroyed the
Fonritan God Learners and the ghost fleet in Argrath's
Saga). This is very distinct from the Loper people's
practice of human sacrifice and riding teleporting
beasts. So much so that if the two cultures ever
came into contact with each other, there would be
little reason for one to aid the other as the
Yranian Leapers are said to have done. After all,
does the Carmanian lift a finger to help a Seshnegi?
Does the Satrap of the Hungry Plateau care much for
the welfare of the Storm Bull Folk of the Block?.
Thus I am inclined to view the Yranian Leapers as
being a magical society that rose within the context
of Fonritan Society (by the rising of the distant
Red Moon) and not some Genertelan tribe that
miraculously appeared in Fonrit (centuries after
their disappearance in Genertela). If there were
Lopers in Fonrit before the first recorded appearance
of the Yranian Leapers (as Steve Martin suggests)
then I would have thought them to be mentioned in
the Annilla Cult Writeup.
- --Peter Metcalfe
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