From: Nick Brooke (Nick_Brooke@compuserve.com)
Date: Sat 01 Nov 1997 - 11:19:17 EET
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Clay writes:
> Suddenly, I find a piece on the web about Gold Wheel Dancers. Great,
> it answers the basic question, but it's laden with facts I heretofore
> had no inkling of (War Between Giants and Dragons? I don't ever rem-
> ember reading that...did I miss it somewhere? Pinchining Who?)
This may be what the Digest is for: answering all the questions you can't=
find answers to in books or zines or web-pages. I know it wasn't the main=
theme of your post (to which I return below), but here are the seeds of
the answers. I am sure there are others here who could contribute more.
We *like* being asked questions about Gloranthan basics, and obscurities,=
and weirdnesses... never be afraid to ask!
The War between Giants and Dragons: cf. "Gods of Glorantha" monomyth,
"Some Early Struggles":
: Dragonewts - War against Giants
:
: The dragonewts tell of a great war fought between their draconic
: ancestors and a mysterious race of giants. The outcome is hidden
: in draconic metaphysics.
Pinchining: cf. the Cradle scenario, or Digest V2 #553 for my own post
But part of the joy of Glorantha (IMHO) is *knowing* that there are
on the subject.
Mysteries in the world which nobody really knows the answers to. The
War of the Dragons and Giants is a case in point: while I'm sure
continents buckled and elements shrieked as these primordial forces
laid into each other (like something out of the Cthulhu Mythos), the
actual effect on Gloranthans today can be written on the back of a
postage stamp. The Elder Giants, like the Cosmically-Powerful Ances-
tral Dragons, are "just one of those things". You almost certainly
*don't* need to understand them to use them in play: you can allude
to them, or scare your players by showing them that there's something
of *VAST* importance, about which their normal sources of information
(libraries, priests, divinations) are almost totally ignorant. (Those
famous "draconic metaphysics").
The depth of Glorantha is an asset as well as a stumbling-block. Use
the richness and complexity of the world as an advantage: don't just
exploit the parts which have been fully explained.
::::
Nick
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