From: alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk
Date: Wed 04 May 1994 - 01:14:44 EEST
> Alex Ferguson asks:
> >What was the Dawn Age population of Peloria? (Third age = 6
> >million.)
Sandy:
> Whatever you need for your campaign.
This isn't very helpful, unless I've to take it that there will never be an Official Publication which states or implies such a number, or order of magnitude thereof.
> If you need historical evidence to back up your theories
Not really, no. My provisional guess is in the region of a million or two, but I could fudge it either way.
> >What approximate proportion of the male populace of the following
> >areas worship: a) Yelm; b) other solar deities; c) Lodril (or close
> >relatives).
> Also, what does the (b) category cover?
The "Gods of Above", roughly.
> Mastakos?
Surely not worshipped in Dara Happa, at least very little, and not until very "recently". You mean because he's a "planet", I assume?
> Ourania?
Yes.
> Presumably Lodril includes the Lowfires and Dendara, right?
Not Dendara: I carefully asked about _male_ worshippers. (I assume most Yelmic wives worship Dendara.) Lump the Lowfires in there, yes. If Dendara _is_ worshipped by males, I assume they're "lower class", so put them in (c), I 'spose.
> i) Cities in Dara Happa proper.
> Yelm: 5-20%
> Other Solar Deities: 10-70%
> Lodril & co.: 10-30% (mostly immigrants)
[Others deleted, but taken due note of.]
Your numbers imply lots of "other" worshippers: what are the rest, Lunar worshippers? (I suppose I was thinking of "classical" Dara Happa, though it'd be interesting to know how "converted" Peloria was. too, assuming the relative proportions of Sun Pantheon worshippers
Nick Brooke's Secret Stuff #3860:
> Jim De Gon is right: the fourfold Indian caste system (three ruling Aryan
> castes over a suppressed native population) was one of my models for the
> Carmanians.
Bah! Nicked! ;-) I had a (very roughly) outlined caste system for Dara Happa (I know, I know, a dead duck for Gregging) on these lines.
> But there is more mobility within the top three social classes
> than you'd get in a caste system: more like mediaeval Europe (you would
> train with the knights, study with the wizards, and take the career your
> father or lord determines for you).
Is this more of a "Western" caste system, then, perhaps Hrestoli-derived? My DH system proposed _no_ caste mixing or mobility, btw, but that was of course before the Lunars got their grubby liberal paws on it.
Alex.
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