about the seas

From: Paavo Raappana (raappana@walrus.megabaud.fi)
Date: Mon 29 Dec 1997 - 03:16:04 EET


I was writing a seabased scenario and an interesting question arose: At
the Closing of the seas, no man was able to sail out to open seas, before
Dormal the Sailor came with his Open Seas -sorcery spell. Thus came the
Opening of the Seas. Am I right?

As far as i know, no other cult teaches "Open Seas" ceremony, but do they
anyway? There are Tsankst-worshipping pirates of Vormain and
Kogag-worshipping sailor trolls of Jrustela for example. What about
mostali-sailors (from Slon) with their ships made of stone.
Is Dormal's "Open Seas" the only way to penetrate the Closing, how do the
other cults and other-god-than-Dormal-worshipping sailors do it?

I have understood that the Closing was some kind of powerful magic of
sorcerers of Brithos Island, and was aimed against the Godlearners. Does

the Closing affect the seaborn cultures such as Waertagi too, or was it
just to keep the land-dwellers out from the open seas and was the Closing
as powerful in Pamaltela and in Eastern Islands (they are pretty far from
Brithos) as it was in Genertela?

By sorcery rules, the spell of Closing would have needed about 20 points
of Range (10000 km) and 25-26 points of Duration (700 years). I dare not
to estimate the Intensity, these Brithos guys have quite a lot of
free-INT. :)

Would somebody help me with this question, thank thee in beforehand,
either through this digest, or direct to my private e-mail.

Heikki Raappana, Finland raappana@walrus.megabaud.fi

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