From: Julian Lord (julian.lord@hol.fr)
Date: Thu 23 Jul 1998 - 21:18:06 EEST
Peter Metcalfe:
> >BTW : a proposal : given that HW IS apparently going to have Mysticism
> >rules, shouldn't we make a distinction between Mysticism and mysticism
> >using upper and lower case?
>
> I fail to see the need for the distinction.
Gloranthan Mysticism (including rulesy stuff), vs. mysticism the RW
concept, I mean.
> I disagree as the non-brithini Malkioni are also materialists.
OK. Have been convinced.
> Likewise the impression that the Brithini are dour humorless types
I'd say that the Ice Age occurred as an event of the Gods' War.Death is
> because the world was broken in the Ice Age (not the Gods' War) is
> also misleading. The Brithini are that way because they fear Death.
part of the broken-ness of the World.
I really do get too abstract, sometimes ...
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Alex Ferguson :
> > Notchet
>
> Wherefore the first 't'?
Anonymous Player : "We're going to that city. Does it have a name?"
GS (gamemastering): "Not(ch/y)et."
Anonymous player : "Then we are going to Nochet!"
That's how the story goes. Therefore, a persistent 't'.
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Jeff Richard:
> Since the Provincials aren't Lodrilli (because they have not been
> conquered by DH overlords), they must be "rebels" in the eyes of good DH
> aristocrats.
perfect sense.
> >Ernalda switching sexual attributes for whomever pleases her presently
>
> No, this isn't really the case.
> ... Oria
> ... Great Sister Esrola
> ... Ernalda ... is goddess of the spiritual earth
Thanks for this piece! The RQ3 version presents these goddesses as more
or less interchangeable aspects of a single goddess, and I'm glad to
have learned that this has changed to some degree.
> Just for good measure, the Orlanthi patroness of child birth is Kero Fin
> and Pela/Esra is the goddess of grain.
And isn't there an Eninta (from KoS) involved in childbirth too?
Maybe she's the midwife ...
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Julian Lord
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