From: Peter Metcalfe, CAPE Canty (CHEN190@csc.canterbury.ac.nz)
Date: Sat 13 Aug 1994 - 12:28:53 EEST
Hmm, no replies from Joerg in todays daily! :-(
Thunderstoning the Crimson Bat.
Isn't create thunderstone one use only? That means you can't put it matrices like you can't put sever spirit into a matrice. I could be wrong but check the rules.
Arkat's Pop
Arkat's dad is known to be a barbarian warrior at the very least. His mother's father however was a horal and so when Arkat (after being illumined by the elves) when he turned 13 and was handed over to the brithini was brought up in his grandfathers caste. As Arkat's mum was driven from her home by outraged parents, one can assume the narrator to be an uncle or cousin. The source for this is Cults of Terror but I do confess that I do not know the names of any Brithini Horals.
Henk censors the daily
>Hi guys, can you take this arguement off-line for a couple of days and post
>the results.
Sure thing, Henk! I don't anticipate it would too exciting though after Joe's source for his contention was regregged.
Cannibalistic Chalanna Arroy Healers
Bob writes
>But I think that a really devout worshipper of CA might *deliberately* adopt
>an omivorous diet despite their own squeamishness, in order to prove they did
>view all life as equal.
Disorderly conduct
Gary james
>>Someone was asking why Uleria's HHD occurs in disorder week. I assumed it was
>>because she was associated with disorder.
Uleria's runes are Fertility (love, life?) and Infinity. No mention of disorder. However I much prefer the idea that she was associated with boggles as mentioned in Cults of terror (which I had forgotten about). BTW there appears to be a dsitinction between sources of the runes. Orlanth, Red Goddess, Magasta, Ernalda, Yelm, Subere, Humakt, Chalana Arroy, Mostal and Mastakos all have doubled runes to indicate their source whereas the Invisible God and Uleria have the infinity rune attached. Does this mean that they not quite the same gods who originally held this rune (in the view of GRAoY with reference to Ezvenveztolay (or something like that) having left the world - this makes sense for the invisible god), the God learners having used the Rune Quest Sight and discovered something they couldn't penetrate. If so, this raises a scarey question as there is a third god who exhibits the infinity rune: Flamal. Are we to say the secret lightbringers quest failed, and that they only brought back a shadow? Is this the Forbidden Secret?
Sandy is confused
>>I suspect that this has to do with my winning the debates in the
>>private postings about the human wave tactics we've been sending to
>>each other
>WHAT?! I won those debates hands down! I can't believe you'd say that in front
>of the entire daily with you bare face hangin out!
Hmmm?!? You refering to me? You must have me confused with somebody else like ...say Peter Whitelaw for instance. ;-)
Talking about gods in Fonrit
J:>and they introduced the terrible gods of suppression like Ompalam.
S:>and Jraktal. Probably Ikadz too. The Agimori who conquered Fonrit do not S:>seemed to have retained much of the original Doraddi culture, and they S:>probably didn't think of Lodril as the creator anymore.
For the record, Jraktal came from the North out of the maw of Jotimam. (he can still be as Sandy says nonchaotic like Malia, perhaps he tapped his chaos rune out of existance!) ToTRM #8 states that he was the leader of the invasion of Pamaltela and influential in the destruction of Artmal. However doraddi myths do not mention anything like this. (The only thing they do mention that is even close is in the Pamalt Cult Writeup where a curious alliance of elves, trolls, dwarves and paleskinned humans takes place). Thus I assumed that Jraktal remained in Fonrit and left Vovisibor to cross the Mountains. So Jraktal is the ruling god of Fonrit having maimed Artmal and made him a slave. The invading agimori did not worship Jraktal as ToTRM #8 says of Jraktal that he was conquered and overthrown by Garangordos the Cruel although this lead to the freeing of Ompalam. Furthermore the Selarn writeup (the thief cult of Afadjann) states they had a traditon of surviving harsh government since *before the dawn*.
So I had posited a Jraktali civilization at the dawn where the masses at large are worshippers of Artmal. The elite worshipped Jraktal and kept the masses at bay with the terror of the Tap. (I do not know how the elite were selected). As the government is harsh, Ikadz could have been worshipped at this time. When Garangordos invades, his cruelty necessitates the imposition of Ompalam to keep the Artmali in check. I assumed Lodril worship among the invading Agimori to lay down the foundation for later sky worship which happens in some cities.
The only question this leaves is Seiseine. As Fonrit is a pretty horrible place divinty wise, she sounds like she might fit in there. Perhaps she is worshipped as the goddess of drug trances?
Well that's all from me now.
Bye!
Peter Metcalfe
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