From: Julian Lord (julian.lord@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Mon 02 Oct 2000 - 05:16:42 EEST
Rather than continuing to slash away at the Hydra
One can indeed discover a consistent and non-contradictory
of why some posters are Wrong about Glorantha,
an attempt at describing what is True. YGMV :
structure for Glorantha : the Inner World can be described
with great clarity. Only one Sun. Only one Sky. The Wind
blows the same way everywhere (bar local phenomena),
and the rules that are expected in a reasonably ordered
cosmos are eminently applicable.
Actual Gloranthans' belief systems OTOH are not
compatible with each other ; they tell different stories about
the Sun : but because of the fluid nature of the Other Side,
these stories take meta-physical shape as methods of
providing magic ; including magic to affect and sometimes
even change the nature of a particular section of the Inner
World. While there are many suns and anti-suns in the many
regions of the Other Side, this does nothing to alter the fact
that there is Only One Sun in the Inner World. neither Yelm,
nor Elmal, nor Somash, nor ANY otherworld entity is
the One True Sun ; the One True Sun of Glorantha is a big
yellow fiery thing up in the Sky. This is the only relevant
fact for the macrocosmic coherence that some posters want
for their Gloranthas.
The Gloranthan Fact that there is Only One Sun is alterable,
(but almost impossible to change). But Gloranthan Facts are
only alterable (inside the system) via a sensibly logical
network of cause and effect, and the interplay of the active
and passive forces that give shape to the world.
The internal consistency that they are after is the internal
consistency of the Inner World. QED
Julian Lord
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