From: Jonas Schiott (jonas.schiott@vinga.hum.gu.se)
Date: Mon 06 Jun 1994 - 23:01:02 EEST
>As I see it, Golden Bow=Jardan, the Grazer Warrior age group god, who's
>also Yu-kargzant's son. I wouldn't expect this among the Galanini.
>Something similar, maybe.
Umm, I'm not up on all these weird solar deity names (haven't had time to look into GRoY yet), so I'm not entirely sure what you mean. What I was aiming at was the idea that since the western cavalrymen and knights moved in, the Galanini would have to think of something besides just having horses to keep their edge. Horse archery seems to fit the bill nicely. The exact mechanics we can leave for later.
>But
>you won't be seeing David/Jonas wars on this, I think either approach is
>valid.
Yeah. Just for the record: even though David has ripped off an amazing amount of stuff from us :-), we've gotten a few ideas from him as well. Chariots, for one.
>>We've been thinking that _all_ Ralian horses are ponies. Well, relatively
>>small and sturdy horses, at any rate. Native ones at least - the Safelster
>>states will of course have imported breeding stock from the West.
>
>I agree. They're all like Celtic Ponies in Pendragon terms. The Galanini
>are better breeders, and do have a horse large enough to be considered a
>Charger, though this is exceptional. Safelstran states have larger horses
>which are equivalent to Pendragon Chargers, and imported Destriers are not
>unheard of. But they don't do well in the hills of the East Wilds.
This is good. I like the idea that the Galanini have better (and bigger) horses - perhaps they've cross-bred the native strain with horses they've stolen (I mean _liberated_) from Safelster? The poster I was replying to (I think it was Joerg?) saw the difference as mustangs among the Galanini, icelandic ponies among the orlanthi: actually this isn't a bad idea either. The way I see it at the moment (liable to change in X seconds), the orlanthi use a smaller version of the Swedish draft horse, while the Galanini have something similar to the proposed mustangs. This was probably the _same_ horse to begin with, it's just that the orlanthi have bred for strength, the Galanini for speed.
>But if Humakt was unknown, why would everyone know that Arkat betrayed
>them? (The popularity of the cult may have plummeted after Arkat became a
>troll and people decided Humakti weren't quite as honorable as their
>reputation.)
No, Humakt is (was) disliked _because_Arkat_was_a_Humakti_. The fact that he betrayed the cult naturally makes it look silly to boot. In our current draft, we just have two Humakt temples, one in Kilwin and one in Dorflik (a city in Safelster that we made up from whole cloth). There is one clan with a lot of Storm Bull worshippers in northeastern Delela (they're attracted by the rumours of Chaos in Karia).
A completely unrelated question:
Does anyone on this list know if the Tekumel mailing list is still active,
and if so at what address? The one I tried was a year or so old, and it
just bounced my query.
( Jonas Schiott ) ( Institutionen for Ide- och lardomshistoria ) ( Goteborgs Universitet ) ---------------------
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