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From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Thu 09 Jun 1994 - 17:10:29 EEST

Alex provided a document which well is worth the 20 Lunars the narrator paid. Lovely twist about "sunk Loskalm"! Where did the Lunars obtain their copy of Zzabur's Blue Book?

Peter Michaels about Gargoyles: Nice connection, some very interesting ideas.

Gonn Orta - Genert:
I think this is overemphasizing Gonn Orta. Why should (a fragment of) Genert have uprooted the Nidan Dwarf kingdom (as described in "Making Jolanti")?

Although I think it likely that Gonn Orta did heroquest along the paths of Genert. He is one of the most magically potent individuals around the Hidden Greens, which might be a place for the Desert Trackers to visit and deposit their hyena hides.

Still, I prefer the Annilla connection for the true (cradle) giants of the Rockwoods.

Nils Weinander brings back the Red Tiger, and puts forth a number of parallels between draconic thinking and illumination (from a Kralori point of view) I second. Although illumination from the Lunar perspective does encompass Primal Chaos (they as verbose as Paul Honigmann suggested, but hardly a pure chaotic).

Nils, why did you let the uppity storm boy kill Yang Long, and not Yelm, a well known figure in Kralori myth? And what did happen to Kralorela after Yelm had been slain?

Metsyla was a deity of light as well, not unlike Antirius a portion of Yelm keeping watch over part of his realm, and like Antirius formed prior to Yelm's death. RQ Companion states (top of p.9) that "soon dragons guarded the Light of the East" during Daruda's reign, during the Storm Ages. But this source also states that Daruda faded to death when he witnessed Yelm's death.

Sam's campaign: I'd say, post it. If you don't, send me a copy, please.

Paul about Lunar printing:
I'd think that the Lunar officials are big at cutting stamps out of linoleum, so why not have larger stamps for producing the forms? viewed from the side, they'd be similar to a Stasis Rune for full forms.

There might also be calligraphically satisfying stamps for certain recursing phrases, although the usual "All praise the Red Moon" might be an exercise in calligraphy considered a prayer for all Lunar scribes which must be executed in hand-writing.

(On the other hand, Tibetans use prayer mills, so the Lunars might have introduced the "All praise..." stamp in lieu of a rosary.)

Dave Cake on Loskalmi Hrestoli:
I think the Squire and Acolythist careers have certain "Farmer" skills which count towards having mastered farming, such as Horse Care, Crafts, etc. I wonder how the urban Farmer class is defined?

More Loskalm: Alex is quoted that Loskalm annexed Junora after the Ban was lifted. The Loskalmi put it like this: The Loskalmi province Junora was separated from the mainland during the Ban, and was reunited with the motherland. (But the same was said about the Sudeten-areas in 1938.)

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-- Joerg Baumgartner joe@sartar.toppoint.de

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