From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Fri 19 Jun 1998 - 18:45:52 EEST
Ian Thomson wonders:
> ie do [Illuminants] necessarily think Chaos is OK
The average Illuminant does not see the stereotypical Chaos Horror as
"OK" at all. Depending on their biases, they might see them as being in
need of being Healed of Their Pain, separated from civilised society,
used as an expedient way to freak out revolting tribesmen -- or killed.
On the other hand, they do not regard them with the sort of singular
dread that non-Illuminants typically have.
Other forms of (alleged) Chaos are a trickier matter. Orlanthi cosmology
says that everything outside Mundane and Divine Glorantha is, by
definition Chaos. Therefore they implicitly regard any sort of
"mysticism" as being, to a greater or lesser degree, duped by, or in
hoc to chaos. The extreme case of this is of course Nysalor, seen by
the Orlanthi as the Chaos Pantheon god of flim-flam merchants, and by
the Pelorians as a transcendant entity of the mystic world, manifest
on Glorantha as a benevolent and wise teacher. Calling Nysalor
"chaotic" is a self-evident truth to the Orlanthi, and prima facia
nonsense to Lunars and Dara Happans.
Slainte,
Alex.
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