Re: RuneQuest Daily, Fri, 06 May 1994, part 1

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From: paul@phyast.pitt.edu
Date: Sun 08 May 1994 - 00:54:12 EEST

  I write:

> > They (UZ) were not forced to take
> >particular shapes until exposed to Yelm's light (when he went to the
> >Underworld.)

>I disagree: They interacted with other races long before Yelm was slain.

  They COULD take shapes, but were still Shapestrong: they were not bound to a particular shape until Light burned off most of their powers.

  And Uz heroes who ventured up into the realms of Light would be forced into shape early on, cf:

> How would Gash and Gore have known their path to the surface world had
>they not traveled it in the shape they had on their exodus? Also remember
>the troll family tree in Uz Lore.

  See my comments about mating and eating.

p > Like other darkness creatures, Uz could practice p> eating-and-becoming: eating something to take on its shape and properties.

j>Hmm. This sort of shape change is related to Triolina in GoG. In the

  Water is the Second Element and creatures of the Deep are still shapestrong.

>I find the equation of all insect life = darkness doubtful even for
>Glorantha. The timinits surely aren't darkness creatures the way bats
>or trolls are. Bees and wasps have too many solar functions to really

  I think that bees, etc. can have lost their Darkness just as trollkin are doing and Muri have done to some extent. Light overcomes Darkness, and Darkness creatures are stuck in the Hurtplace, an alien realm. They adapt (like bees or Muri) or die (like Uzko).

j > Strange. Most molds and mushrooms eat themselves into the plant (or its j>decaying remnants) from the outside.

  They don't ingest the plants into a stomach like an animal, instead they grow themselves into the plant. (At least where I come from - do fungi in Germany swallow?)

p>Dwarfs ...
p> can make working metal limbs for humans (Arazban (sp?) & Count Alehandro)

j>Like the famous iron hand for Goetz von Berlichingen, or a living limb j>(like in Moorcock's Corum Saga)?

  The latter. The limbs are described as movable; Arazbarn crushes trolls in his for example.

p> I do think that adult Irondwarfs will have iron skeletons, etc., even j>I would make this later installation an enrichment in their bones rather

  I actually describe it as a sort of metal-ceramic composite when people come across a Dwarf skeleton.

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