From: Paul Reilly (paul@phyast.pitt.edu)
Date: Fri 01 Jul 1994 - 21:37:16 EEST
I will try to produce a rules summary, I have at least twenty pages of rules. No guarantees on when as I am very busy.
On Hrestoli "goodness" and Rokari "badness"
I think that Loskalm is probably a much better place to live in IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE LOSKALMI. However, I think that during the Ban they were able to stamp out the non-Hrestoli in their area. After all some parts of Loskalm wer cut off by the Ban (Junora). The Ban selected "bodies" of people, so the Central Loskalm part must have been culturally and religiously pretty unified to start with. And they "need no help from non-Malkioni" in their struggle with the Kingdom of War: i.e. they are apparently fanatically anti-pagan enough to turn down offers of MILITARY ALLIANCE against a common enemy. Pretty rare, exceeds medieval Catholicism.
So I think that the Rokari and the Hrestoli may balance out on the good-bad (by modern Western Earth lights) scale. The Rokari are harsher to their own people but are, I think, far more tolerant of pagans. (E.g., in the Pink Book Knight writeup: "We go to the old women to have our sicknesses healed" or some such. SOunds like crypto-shamanism or healing goddess to me."
The Loskalmi are good and wonderful as long as you are orthodox. I think they will give people in areas they roll over (starting with Junora) a choice: accept the One True Faith of Malkion and Hrestol As Promulgated by the Ecclesiarch at Southpoint ... or be destroyed. I think they have no tolerance for those old women who cure diseases. (Though they may have somehow absorbed them into a church Healing Saint order in Loskalm itself, maybe St. Xemela.)
So I guess I can accept both the Enlightened Kingdom model AND the Nazi model. Hrestoli Knights with that burning light of fanaticism in their eyes, out on crusade.
To me, this is a consistent mindset. And it could have been set up with the best of intentions, if the God Learner Social Engineer^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Wise King Siglat believed that the Ban would be permanent - set everyone up to believe that Pagans Were Evil, But They Are Gone Now, So We Can All Be Nice To Each Other Without Their Evil Influence.
-paul
PS> I don't think Krarsht is Chaotic in the same way as Wakboth...
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