From: Graeme Lindsell (gal502@huxley.anu.edu.au)
Date: Wed 02 Jun 1993 - 14:48:01 EEST
>From: 100270.337@CompuServe.COM (Nick Brooke)
>__________________
>Richard C. Staats:
>
>> I always thought of the Invisible God as kind of a Great
>> Compromise creation, and in my campaigns, I treat sorcery
>> as a type of magic that only came into Glorantha as a
>> result of the Great Compromise. This flows along nicely
>> with some of the more recent articles on the use of Runic magic.
>
>I am in partial agreement with you here. Certainly, modern sorcery (as its
>more scientifically-minded practitioners describe it) couldn't have worked
>before Time, when the Elements etc. were still free-willed and there was no
>defined Natural Law within which the sorcerer could work. That said,
>Malkion came as Prophet of the Invisible God during the pre-Time Ice Age.
Sorcerers then may have gained their power/insight through their link with the Infinity rune, rather than Law. Perhaps before Time Law was difficult to relate to physical reality, while Infinity was easier to use than it is now. This could even have been Hrestol's revelation: that Law, which previously referred only to the Brithini social customs, now had a greater relevance, but that infinity (freedom?) could now have social applications as well...'course, I'm probably blowing smoke here.
Has there ever been a Time Rune, or is it (as I believe) part of the Law rune?
>
>Perhaps the nature of his Supreme Being changed over time? Note that the
>One God has two aspects defined in the Prosopaedia, those of Creator and
>Invisible God. Malkion may have worshipped a different version of the One
>God from that which Hrestol contacted/discovered -- who, please remember,
>was only "needed" inside Time when the Old Malkioni Way could no longer
>satisfy worshippers (cf. CoT; Glorantha Book).
In this case, would the Infinity Rune be the Creator aspect, Law the Invisible God?
PS in one of the earlier digests, an up to date list of the runes from GoG was published. Can anyone tell me which one it was, so I can get it from soda?
Graeme Lindsell Email: gal502@huxley.anu.edu.au Research School of Chemistry Phone: (06) 249 3575 Australian National University Fax: (06) 249 0750 --------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------
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