From: Nikk Effingham (eng7nje@arts-01.novell.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: Thu 06 May 1999 - 22:52:16 EEST
> If this were right (and IMG it isn't), would there be a Realm of Chaos or
> something alike? What would it be like? Something like Lovercraft's
> Dreamlands? Could it be explored?
There is, in a sense, a Realm of Chaos - think of it like this,
> Is only Chaos that can enter Glorantha, or would there be other things that
outside of Glorantha is Nothing, or in case that is a bit obscure,
outsied of Glorantha there is Not-Anything, total Oblivion. If you
went exploring there then you would appear in Oblivion and promptly
not exist (I'm quite certain that nothing can exist within Oblivion
as that would defeat Oblivion's very nature). "Chaos" invaded because
this Oblivion, which from what I can derive from Lords of Terror, is
seeking to consume Glorantha, and so when a hole was opened up
between Glorantha and Oblivion it tainted the world around it
creating lots of Oblivion-tainted creatures i.e. Chaos. Chaos seeks
Oblivion. There are probably realms tainted thoroughly by chaos, but
even these don't come close to being Oblivion - Dorastor springs to
mind.
> could? Is (in view of this) Glorantha really a closed world? Would an alien
> to Glorantha, maybe a painted Pict from Earth, be sensed as chaotic? Maybe
> that's the key to understand Chaos: what does not belong here.
Technically Glorantha is a Closed World from a gaming point of view.
I'm sure if a normal Pict came from earth Sense Chaos wouldn't detect
them as such, but the Orlanthi would probably burn them anyway.
If you escaped you'd stop existing as you wouldn't be aprt of reality
anymore. The closest you get is Boztakang who looked into the Void
and learnt secrets from it.
All IMO
Nikk
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