From: Nick Brooke (100270.337@CompuServe.COM)
Date: Mon 08 Nov 1993 - 02:33:17 EET
A quick catching-up post. Give me time to calm down and sober up...
> Obvious the Brithini have little or no religious paraphernalia of any
> kind, being the strongest atheists in the world. Anyone who converts,
> dies. All the Brithini who would have converted did, long ago (and died).
... and their descendents are the Malkioni peoples of the West. No? That's how I'm coming to see Malkion's prophetic mission in the Great Darkness: he taught the Brithini an alternative way of living, that involved having children and accepting death. As Paul Reilly said:
> How would we view a colony of people who bred like flies, only lived to
> age 5, had babies of their own at age 1 or 2, and whose idea of 'civi-
> lization' extended to what we would call 'Playing House'?
> I refuse to stand by anything I wrote in Different Worlds over 10
> years ago.
Oh, but why? I liked that article! Using the dwarf's beard as a major sensory organ was hilariously sensible.
> As one of the responsible parties behind Vormain, I now state that I
> had no thought of Melnibone when we were discussing it.
: VALZAIN -- Vormain God, the Emperor, God of Loyalty... When depicted, : he appears as a human with a white face and jet black armour.
Too tempting to miss, for me. Plus, this employs my Eurocentric xenophobic feelings re: the alienness, inhuman cruelty and effete decadence of those vile Oriental Empires.
> Looking at the map of Dragon Pass in the RQII book there is a lake just
> beside Boldhome. Where has it gone?
That's the slightly weird symbol for a headwater (i.e. where a river starts), and not a lake. But I like lakes, too, even if they don't show up on the big scale maps. More power to your elbow!
> One of my players want's to play a poet... Orlanth Rex is the god of
> poets is he not? Would that make my poet a noble?
Orlanth Rex employs poets, yes; I think Orlanth Goodvoice is (one of) the poet aspect(s) of Orlanth. Though Issaries would also have elements of this... see those storyteller invocations in King of Sartar. I imagine any Preeminent Chief Bard would have noble status -- but so would any other Rune Lord. So your player's poet would have to become prominent and accepted (and get a patron, and write nauseatingly fawning praise-poems) before attaining this status. Still, there'd be rich rewards: from the early Irish laws --
] The chief poet of the tribe shall sit next to the king at a banquet. ] Each shall be served the choicest cut of meat.
Your suggestion that the Heortling for "Pharaoh" is "Bretwalda": I love it!
> Whether Egyptian-esque or not, how about square shields?
And, of course, Egyptian-esque square pectorals in place of classical cuirasses. Still like the look, and am prepared to distort geography, weather patterns, etc. to make it fit <g>. Joerg's "Ancient Celtic" look makes sense if you want them to be close to Orlanthi -- though I would steer clear of this as there's Ralian queendoms that work this way already.
> BTW: Regarding Credo, does anyone know when it's to come out?
I saw Greg on Friday, and he said it should be packaged up and shipping round about *NOW*. So start hassling your local game stores, cathedral gift shoppes, etc. to stock it.
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