From: Argrath@aol.com
Date: Tue 24 May 1994 - 04:12:51 EEST
Ed Wallman--
OK, so why don't you make the Daily more useful? I promise not to sneer. How about plot ideas, or histories of a kingdom, or some detailed NPC's.
Gary Newton--
Isn't there a contradiction between saying peasants can up sticks and leave, on the one hand, and saying that each society is controlled by an oppressive military-religious cabal? Maybe those nobles are holed up in their forts because they're afraid of the lower classes. Or maybe the peasants have too much to lose, now that they've grown prosperous. Or both.
Alex--
Are we agreeing or disagreeing about Xiola Umbar's possession of Enchant Lead? Yes, there is low need-for; however, there is a correspondingly low threshold for lead usage. And the need-for is not vanishingly low, since XU is a semi-martial cult.
"Why would an exarch do his own enchanting, even if he really _did_ want iron armour?"
I agree that exarchs are too busy to do that, but there are priests of Godunya, who exist to support the social order of which the exarchs are the leaders. So your argument mystifies me.
Re: all this pagan-Malkioni business
Where Christianity met polytheistic cultures, syncretism usually developed. Christianity is, for the most part, a syncretism with Greek philosophy. Christianity in Ireland appropriated, as some have observed, the most popular local gods as saints. Voodoo and Santeria are a good bit more on the polytheistic side of syncretism than Irish Christianity, but they make dandy models for Stygianism such as Joerg's Aeolian church. Just list all the gods, decide which saints they best match, equate them, and go from there. BTW, Alex, ask your neighborhood Voodoo cultist which god he or she is an initiate of. You'll get a blank stare (or maybe a dead chicken on your doorstep).
Re: those Malkioni in Nochet with "pure" beliefs
If earthly religions are any guide, it is impossible for a religion to avoid change. Some of it is gradual, as when people brought little statues of Jesus and Mary into my grandmother's Brethren church (which I thought would have been greeted much like a hymn to Cthulhu). Other times, the change is more dramatic. So, those guys in Nochet may believe they've preserved their beliefs despite everybody, but you and I know they're wrong.
Re: La Toile d'Arachne Solara
Si vous etes un francophone, il y a un nouveau fanzine pour vous. Abonner aujourd'hui! 18 rue de Tourelle, 78730 Rochefort- en-Yvelines, tel. 30.41.35.57, fax 30.41.94.38.
Well, actually, don't rush to the foreign exchange office just yet. I don't know how much foreign subscriptions go for, or whether l'Academie Francaise knows about "le fanzine" and "le fax." Anybody know if they have an email address? Or how to do accent marks with ASCII?
Thanks to Nick Brooke for putting me on to these guys.
Cullen O'Neill:
LBQ: Leg Before Quicket? Lyndon Baines Quonset? Litterarum Baccalaureus something-beginning-with-Q?
--Martin
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