From: David Dunham (ddunham@radiomail.net)
Date: Mon 20 Jun 1994 - 19:15:59 EEST
Colin Watson said
>Gods supply magic when they're worshipped correctly; not because they like you.
> ... The priests have control over who gets into the cult; it's largely
>a cultural thing.
In my PenDragon Pass game, the Religion skill (which is deity-specific) indicates how well you know the prayers and rituals of the religion. You can get a POW check by making this roll. The priests test for the five cult virtues, and these are cultural (Chalana Arroy can have different virtues depending on where she's worshipped).
Joerg said
>Alakoring Dragonbreaker takes his war against the dragons and
>dragonfriends from Ralios to Aggar and Holay. Since the route through
>Dorastor was firmly shut at the end of the Second Age, he either must
>have used High Llama Pass (an unlikely route to take with an army) or
>he crossed the Rockwoods directly into Aggar.
"Alakoring took his war" -- not necessarily his army! Alakoring could have travelled on foot the long way to Aggar and Holay and started raising rebellion against the EWF.
Or, from Wyrm's Footnotes 13: Alakoring "was in the army which flew over the Rockwoods to fight the Empire of the Wyrms Friends. He became prominent while living in Aggar, where he settled and raised a family, always fighting the Empire."
>A question of appeal to all the Gloranthan RuneQuesters out there: can
>we make away with the concept of Blank Lands by now?
The concept was, use these areas and we won't Greg you. I wouldn't be surprised if many people would still appreciate this. It's unfortunate in some ways that Balazar is translucent rather than opaque...
Sumerian Thought:
In the excellent novel Snow Crash, the Sumerians _didn't_ think quite like we do... And I saved an article from the Chrstian Science Monitor 5Jan94, about the work of Lucio Gaidorou-Astori, who studied Mesopotamic stone tablets and discovered a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem that "proceeded from a different way of thinking from that of ancient Greece." "What motivates [Gaidorou-Astori] is the investigation of another, arlier way of thinking."
In general, I agree the ancients were an awful lot like us. But I suspect much of the mindset was different. Pendragon has some information on this.
re "Orlando" vs "Orlanth:"
You guys certainly have logic on your side. And if you'd said all this before, rather than just after, I'd started a Ralios campaign, I'd be swayed. I don't want to change now. "Orlando" doesn't really fit with the names I've been using; "Orlan" or possibly "Orlant" fits better.
So would other Lightbringers have different names in your scheme?
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