Ralios etc

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From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Thu 02 Jun 1994 - 17:34:44 EEST


Sandy Petersen in X-RQ-ID: 4300

> Alex mentions: 

>>while I can believe Aeolian wizardry exists, I'm skeptical of it  
>>being practiced en masse.
>	I haven't followed all the discussion on Aeolian wizardry,

> but surely only 9% of the Aeolian believers even _qualify_ for
> wizardry, no? (That's the percentage of randomly-generated humans who
> have a 10% magic bonus.)

This is for apprentices only. What Alex and I are arguing about (now privately, whoever is interested is invited to listen in) is whether the non-specialist magic in Hendrikiland would be overwhelmingly spirit magic, or whether there wold be a high proportion of people who use the simpler sorcery spells as personal magic instead of spirit magic, spells taught by the Aeolian heresy not only to specialists, but also to normal people.

Note that we argue about southern Heortland specifically, not about Ralios or Wenelia. 

>	Having helped write the original Invisible God cult, I'd like

> to believe that the "standard form" saint cult is pretty common
> throughout Malkionism. However, there is one branch of your argument
> I'd like to explore much much more -- the possibility that the Rokari
> tend towards iconoclasm. Presumably, during one of these periodic
> fits, it's dangerous to even worship the saints in the traditional
> method. I like the whole idea of Rokari iconoclasts, especially as a
> reaction on their part to preserve "true" Malkionism against the
> perceived threat of Stygianism and the Henotheist Church. Plus the
> many more heresies threatening the Rokari lands.

Also in Rokari colonies (Richard the Tiger-hearted's Kingdom of Malkonwal, or the Nolosian mission in Umathela and Fonrit)?

How exactly would the Rokari invaders have treated (or rather usurped) the existing structure of the Aeolian Church of Heortland and twisted it into their mode of worship?

I ruled that they will purge the Aeolian temples of all pagan symbols (like air runes), that they forced the native Aeolian populace to follow Rokari services etc. How would they have treated pagan Orlanthi, or (if these exist) spirit magic using Aeolians? Would they forbid the use of Aeolian miracles (Orlanthi divine magic)? Would they close the Chalana Arroy nunneries within the Aeolian structure? Would they burn pagan books in the Lhankor Mhy sections of the church?

By the way, there seems to be legends pertaining both to a King or saviour in Heortland expected from the West and to the name Malkonwal. Does anybody know anything about these?

> Graeme Lindsell complains: 

>>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.
>	First, I don't think you can find Good Guy Malkioni that Tap.

I understood Graeme so that they oughtn't Tap, oppress, or rave fanatically.

But then I believe that there can be extremely well-meaning Boristi who Tap Chaos for the Glory of the Invisible God.

> Second, I'm not sure why the Loskalmi are typified as raving
> fanatics. Just because the Rokari claim the Hrestoli are idealists
> doesn't mean the Hrestoli themselves can't be good guys.

Their leaders, especially Meriatan, seem to be. His sense of mission reminds me of Third Reich paroles...

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-- Joerg Baumgartner joe@sartar.toppoint.de

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