From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Mon 24 Jan 2000 - 04:40:03 EET
Peter Metcalfe:
> They have the completely opposite idea
> - to avoid people conquering Vormain and they view their
> rule over the Hinter Isles as an especially noble form of
> self-sacrifice since they can't go back.
- -.. or they'd perhaps like us to believe so, though one might suspect
that in the odd case or two the circumstances are rather like an
extreme case of 'a Corflu job'. The Hinter Isles, it would seem,
are more than just a military barrier: the zeal with which it's
enforced seems to imply that it's also, perhaps mainly, to avoid
'cultural contamination'.
> Apart from noting that Zaktirra isn't a wizard, I must confess
> to be somewhat lost by the colour magic schtick. Perhaps
> Alex the Vormain expert can explain the latest thinking, if
> he's feeling up to it (haha).
hahaha...
> But the Colour Gods are a recent
> phenomenon and before the Isolation, Vormain looked more normal.
Probably just 'differently weird'. The most recent Isolation is
just part of what's either a cycle, or a gradudal escalation over
time, peppered with brief relapses, depending on whom you believe.
The rot started round about the end of Metsyla's reign, and rapidly
went into a bit of a decline... Whenever Vormain pops up every few
hundred (or thousand, or whatever) years it's naturally going to have
changed somewhat, probably exacerbated by whatever remarkable
circumstance it was that caused this momentary Blip in the
isolation..., so chances are it's going to appear considerably
different each time.
> There are no Malkioni in Vormain as the Isolation is simply too
> effective but there are Martalak sorcerers in Vormain.
There are?
> But when they landed, they were met by Valkaro and converted
> en masse, a miracle that nobody has been able to understand, and
> so the invasion ended in disaster.
There's probably a proverb about Vorumai invasions, with a similar
moral to the one about 'pissups in brewery', and/or to the effect of
extreme bad luck...
Cheers,
Alex.
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