From: Carl Fink (carlf@panix.com)
Date: Mon 28 Mar 1994 - 20:05:32 EEST
argrath@aol.com (Mike Dawson) writes in part:
> My personal opinion is that Greg Stafford is consciously
>making Glorantha a constructivist universe, where reality depends
>entirely or almost entirely on the viewer, and it is unknown and
>possibly unknowable whether there is an underlying God's-Eye
>Truth. This is not the case in Mike Dawson's Glorantha, however.
>Mike wants a universe that has a single Truth knowable by the GM.
>I think a subjectivist universe is much more interesting.
I agree completely. Carl Fink's Glorantha has a single Truth which can be discovered by the GM, and by its inhabitants. Greg may be a fan of Bishop Berkely, I am not.
Looking at the Gods Wall, some of the descriptions really don't make a lot of sense -- once Nick said it, it became clear to me that Plentonius was making it up as he went along. For instance, the Tortured Victims, who may not be worshipped, include two portions of Yelm.
Thinking about dismembered Yelm -- with his interests Greg has almost certainly read some Jung. Could the Red Goddess be a Yelm's anima, which was not reintegrated by the Compromise? After all, in the Egyptian myth of the returned god, Isis couldn't find one piece, right?
--Carl
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