From: alex (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Mon 04 Jul 1994 - 13:50:47 EEST
Harald Smith:
> I might suggest that the Carmanian "empire" is no more squished under
> the Lunars then the Persian "empire" was squished under the "minor"
> conquest of Alexander (which only left a Seleucid Greek dynasty for
> around two hundred years).
This is a pretty fair analogy, for the most part. But I still think that when people merrily ascribe Persian-analogue-type-things to Carmania, they at least stop and ask themselves whether this is supposed to be something, on the first paw, they brought with them from the West, on the second, something they dreamed up as Carmania qua (qua "qua") Carmania, thirdly, during the period they were camped out in Dara Happa, or on the fourth, since they've been Lunarised.
> Perhaps the liberation of Charg will reveal
> the true new "Parthian" dynasty waiting to return.
Anyone using _that_ as an excuse to import Parthianisms into Peloria can expect a visitation from the spirit of the Glesgae Kiss. ;-)
Heroic MOB:
> Now coming over on Gulf Air, arriving in Old Blighty on the 12th.
Good luck dodging the F-14s.
> Cullen Grace asks:
> >Here's a fun question: What was the name of the Red Goddess in life, before
> >her apotheosis?
> That would be young Miss Teelo Norri, I would guess.
This seems to be Top Answer, as they say on Family Fortune/Feud. But did she go by this name between her "birth" in 1220 and her "true" apotheosis in 1247? This somewhat depends on how one views the recreation ritual itself: did it actually displace TN's spirit from her body, or did it merely bring about a change in her mystical state which allowed her to become the RG in due course?
Alex.
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