From: David Dunham (dunham@pensee.com)
Date: Tue 01 Feb 2000 - 22:28:12 EET
Alex Ferguson opined
>And if we _were_ to seek to abolish a meaning of
>the term 'Orlanthi', then the sense of 'culturally Orlanthi' is
>the one I'd least like to say go, personally.
But that's the most confusing.
In fact, I believe Hero Wars is going to try to refer to the most
The Heortlings have significant cultural differences from the Ralian
One major difference is how young people are initiated into
commonly known Orlanth-worshipping culture as Heortling.
Orlanthi (of either East or North predilection) or the Fronelan
Orlanthi. Or worse, the Umathelan storm worshippers. I think these
differences may even be greatest at the time of the Hero Wars, since
there hasn't been as much lozenge-spanning travel as in earlier Ages.
adulthood. I believe funerary customs also differ.
Not to deny there are many similarities, not the least of which is
they all worship Orlanth.
David Dunham <mailto:dunham@pensee.com>
Glorantha/RQ page: <http://www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha.html>
Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
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