Enemies Without Friends

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From: Nick Brooke (100270.337@CompuServe.COM)
Date: Tue 23 Nov 1993 - 22:16:54 EET


Joerg asked:

> Where else than in the Dragon Pass Ruins, the Rubble and the City of
> 10,000 Magicians in Aggar are we likely to find EWF artifacts?

The EWF at its height spread along the whole body of their Great Genertelan Dragon: its wings were the Rockwoods (East and West), its spine the Oslir (they took over the Dara Happan Empire for a time), its head in Dragon Pass (with a fire-breathing mouth at the Vent, and its Eye at ... you got it!). In other words, they didn't have the bits of Peloria that were neither highlands nor river valleys, but scooped up most of the rest. So I'd imagine you could find EWF artifacts throughout that range: from the Elder Wilds across to Brolia, with some ancient sites in the midst of the great cities of Dara Happa (but not Alkoth) -- though I imagine these would have been very thoroughly trashed and looted by now. The True Golden Horde didn't leave much standing...

> If any adventurer party wants to play a part in the upcoming Hero Wars,
> quest for these artifacts, and deliver them into the focus of fighting,
> Sartar.

Might be stiff competition from that Garrath Sharpsword in Pavis... I think he's got pretty much the same idea.

> Does that draconic school in Nochet (Glorantha Book p.19) still exist
> (at least in ruins)? Where is that Drolgard cult situated? Where can
> one contact Orlaront Dragonfriend?

Maybe, nowhere, and dunno. I'm sure the school isn't still functioning, but you can find all kinds of odd things in Nochet if you look (a bit like Lankhmar or Ankh-Morpork in that respect). The Cult of Drolgard surely had its forked tongue gouged out at the time of the Draconic betrayal of the EWF, when people forgot how to talk to dragons. Orlaront would be on the Hero Plane somewhere, perhaps in a dragonrest (or maybe even as a Dragon, by now?). We're pretty sure Argrath made friends with him.

> And what kind of Malkioni were those from Nochet? How many were there?
> How important was their bishop in city politics? How important is he
> now? Is it Nochet where the highest religious authority of the Trader
> Princes of Maniria lies, or is it Ralios?

My theory: they're a peculiar old-style sect of pacifist white-robed types who live in the catacombs beneath the city and still defend some ancient secrets entrusted to them by Arkat the Conquerer at the end of the First Age. Their bishop *was* important a while ago, maybe, but is now pretty well removed from the official centres of power. I use them like the early Christians in Rome ('round about Nero's time): good for rioting against or persecuting, and with oodles of secret converts and recognition-signs.

The Issarian sect of the Trader Princes would probably be centred around their mercantile hub at Venice -- sorry, that's Handra -- but would be pretty decentralised in any case. Not related to the Nochet sect (except insofar as they're all Malkioni together, for what that's worth), though they'd certainly have trade missions with accompanying church officials.


Nick
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