From: Peter Metcalfe (metcalph@voyager.co.nz)
Date: Sun 21 Jun 1998 - 13:54:04 EEST
Alex Ferguson:
>Those are also two of the cultures for which
>Resurrection is the most mythicly significant -- in a lot of the rest of
>Glorantha, the main drawback to resurrection is that you can't get it,
>any any price.
The Praxians do know of resurrection through the cults of Daka Fal and
>On a shameless tangent, note that some "dry stone" building techniques
the Good Shepherd. The Brithini have access to resurrection although
the Malkioni appear not to (although this may be a third age thing).
Pamalt does brings back the other members of his Necklace after receiving
a mauling from Vovisibor, so some form of resurrection would be known in
Pamaltela. IMO the Teshnans do not have any need for resurrection and the
Kralori resurrection involves hefty bribes paid to the Officials of Hell.
>are actually _hideously_ sophisticated, using it in its most general
>sense of "mortarless". The extreme examples of this are the central
>american culturs (I think perhaps the Toltecs, don't quote me on this)
>who managed to build dry-jointed structures with _huge_ stones, so
>exactly that one can't get a razorblade between two adjacent blocks.
You are thinking of the Incan City of Machu Picchu in South
>Exactly how they did this is up there with concave-hollowed granite
America.
Not true. The trick is to chip away the bits that don't fit.
>Obglorantha: let's have them all there, or some yet more whacky variant!
I think either Teshnos or Maslo would be suitable. However there
would be some problems with situating it in Maslo: the Mother of
Monsters stomps on every Elamli City whereas the Flanchi are more
inclined to use scorched earth as defensive terrain.
- --Peter Metcalfe
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