From: Steven E Barnes (akuma@netcom.com)
Date: Mon 02 May 1994 - 08:41:55 EEST
From: 100270.337@CompuServe.COM (Nick Brooke)
>Alex, I'm working on the history of Carmania for eventual publication by
>Chaosium (we hope). There have been a few leaks and spin-offs so far; there
>will be more at Convulsion, I expect. "Evil", "nasty", "oppressive", etc.
>are fair enough as descriptions of the ruling Carmanians (or of any other
>"nobility") at their worse times. There were bright patches in between
>(pre-Lunar Carmanian history spans some five centuries, not monotonously),
>and they did develop a unique hybrid culture from which the Lunar Way grew.
>In fact, Carmanian culture is (and remains) one of two major links between
>Malkionism and the Lunar Empire (the other being the Arrolian city-states,
>of course). Which answers someone else's question about the Lunar Way and
>how/why the Malkioni might perceive it:
Can you elaborate on this relationship? Also, I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how this Carmanian Light / Dark dualism is supposed to work. I haven't found much information about Zoroastorism looking in bookstores, and I'm not sure which Gloranthan pantheon is involved. I'm very tempted to use the Dara Happan pantheon described in GRoY, since they can be divided easily between Light and Dark gods.
(Reminds me of a joke from an old campaign: "A Lite god? Have you ever *tried* a Lite god?")
> Paul Reilly here.
>
>> I'm basing it on the fine discussions re: Carmania here on
>>the Net! My own treatment of Carmania in mine own campaign is going
>
> THanks. (As originator of a LOT of material... do people want more Carmanian
>stuff on the Daily? I was waiting until the Carmanian interest group
>had hashed out more of a consensus before posting a lot...)
YES! -steve
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