From: Peter Metcalfe (metcalph@bigfoot.com)
Date: Tue 04 Apr 2000 - 11:03:55 EEST
Nick Brooke:
ML >> The dualism of the Carmanian faith is [...] a product of their
integration
> > of Pelandan and Spolite culture into their own as well as a rejection of
> > the Malkioni "god learnerish" faith they escaped from in their long
> journey.
>I would merely add the obvious impact of "Dark" Stygian/Arkati and "Light"
>Talorian influences on the Malkionism of early Second Age Fronela. This is,
>I believe, where a lot of the Carmanian Duality is rooted. They see Nysalor
>as a Bright Shining Lie, and Arkat as a Dark Truth.
I don't think that Arkat has a meaningful role within the Loskalmi
Talor was a devout Malkioni as his famous laughter was actually
(and Carmanian) memories of their war against Gbaji. They remember
Talor as being the hero who saved them from that Great Evil and
his association with Arkat was only passing at best.
an interpretation of Hrestol's Joy (the God Learners couldn't
understand this and so thought him mad).
>Of course, there is plenty of later accretion (including direct lifts from
>Dara Happan cosmology, of course). But IMO Syranthir was a Dualist (of some
>kind) long before his army arrived in Pelanda and fought the Spolites.
IMO his dualism was a reaction to the intense philosophical debates
that had ravaged Loskalm since God Learner missionaries introduced
their revelations there in the past century. Syranthir would have
been one of those conservatives affronted by the God Learner doctrines
and saw it as an invention of the Devil. Dualism followed when the
forces of darkness started winning...
- --Peter Metcalfe
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