Re: Orlanthi

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
commonly known Orlanth-worshipping culture as Heortling.

The Heortlings have significant cultural differences from the Ralian
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.

One major difference is how young people are initiated into
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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