From: Stephen Martin (ilium@juno.com)
Date: Wed 12 Nov 1997 - 03:45:11 EET
Sandy Petersen
>Me, and Greg, and the big map in the office. The map shows a
>single Ralios Sun Dome Temple, and it does not show ANY Sun Dome
>temples in Dara Happa. They're all in barbarian lands.
I didn't say "Dara Happa", I said "southern Peloria". I know quite well
that there is a big difference.
I have never seen a map showing the Ralian Sun Dome Temple -- can you be
Since the Sun Dome Temple ruins in Dragon Pass and Prax were founded in
There could well be some sort of solar temple in northern Ralios, a
more specific as to which "big map in the office"? And, since this map is
unpublished and probably drawn when Greg still believed in the Monomyth,
I find no reason to believe such a place still exists, barring a good
reason for it to exist.
the mid to late Second Age, and Yelmalio the human god is but 60 or so
years old, I do not believe anything even remotely related to a Sun Dome
Temple could possibly exist in Ralios, as we understand the term.
remnant which has somehow survived for 1000 years cut off from Dara
Happa. But to call it a Sun Dome Temple is a misnomer which implies links
which simply cannot be present, in any way, shape, or form -- no link to
the Second Age cult(s) of the Sun Dome Temples, and no link to Yelmalio.
This temple may have a similar shape (square base, domed roof, since that
shape was first used sometime around the year 150 S.T., per GRoY, Ivory
edition), but I don't think similar shape alone should justify calling
such a temple a "Sun Dome Temple."
I therefore see no reason to call this temple (if it exists) a Sun Dome
Temple. Call it a Nysalorian Temple, if you like, it is a lot more
accurate than Sun Dome.
IMO.
Philip Hibbs
Picturesque is pronounced (in my part of California, anyways) as
Pik-chur-esk.
Stephen Martin
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