From: Graeme Lindsell (lindsell@rschp1.anu.edu.au)
Date: Wed 01 Jun 1994 - 23:03:44 EEST
Nick Brooke writes:
[re: Tsarist Safelster]
>If you want "bad guy" Orlanthi nearer to home, look at what the Wenelians
>are doing to Esrolia. The bastards.
I don't want "bad guy" Orlanthi (plenty of those in Dragon Pass IMO), I want "good guy" Malkionists, ie some group that don't harshly oppress the lower classes and strangers (the Brithini, Seshnelans and the Jonateli do that admirably), Tap, and aren't raving fanatics like the Loskalmi. That really just leaves the Carmanians and the Salfestans of Ralios as the only major group of Malkioni in Genertela. Are the Carmanians the people I'm looking for?
While I do like the original idea of an oppressive culture doing it's best to keep out the nomads and keep in the peasants, putting it in Salfester removes the last lot of Malkioni. I'm still more inclined to put it in the Redlands: makes a shock for Lunar characters to find how the freedom of the Lunar way disappears when they approach the Pentans.
Paul asks Nick re: Crucfixion (out the door, line on the left, one cross...)
>> Nick, where did the Lunars pick up this charming custom [crucifixion]?
>> I would guess that it comes in via the Carmanian Empire, as opposed to
>> the Dara Happan.
>Yeah, I'd agree. And the Carmanians get it from an ancient Western custom.
The Lunars are inventive and progressive people, they could have developed it all by themselves.
How would the Earth Worshippers kill? Burial alive and defenestration I could see for the Dark Earth worshippers.
>Without any supporting evidence other than the old name of the city, I've
>come to believe Hrestol was crucified on Zzabur's orders at Sog City.
I could accept "killed by Zzabur", but why does it have to be crucified? I'd like Malkionism to be less like Christianity, not more. Also, I've never seen any reference to Hrestol being executed, much less how he died - can you point me to one? In fact none of the Malkioni Saints seem to have the trials and executions associated with Christian ones, except Xemela, and that was entirely self induced. Of course we have heard very little about any of the Saints except Arkat.
>It would explain a lot of things, probably too intricate to go into here.
I'd certainly like to see your arguments.
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Graeme Lindsell a.k.a lindsell@rschp1.anu.edu.au
Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra.
"I was 17 miles from Greybridge before I was caught by the school leopard"
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