From: Peter Metcalfe, CAPE Canty (CHEN190@csc.canterbury.ac.nz)
Date: Fri 19 Aug 1994 - 11:42:32 EEST
John Hughes:
>Keraun comes and he children dance; the mother does nor dance.
I presume the correct version is
'Keraun comes and her children dance; the mother does not dance'
The answer is of course, the children being rain (or lightning) the mother is the cloud.
Lord of the Runes
>>And surely for the Moon rune, Annilla should be its first holder.
Jonas wrote
>Yes? have I contradicted this?
Annilla's runes are Sea, Moon and Darkness. No infinity rune. I admit defeat in the case of Daka Fal but Horned Man still remains to be explained. CoT (or some other source) states that the spirit rune was not yet realized during the Golden Age. Thanks for getting my name right anyway! :-)
Joerg cites the Emperor Yelmgatha: Who? I must get a copy of the Book of Emperors or I will go insane!
Harald Smith: Doing the switch of the Blue Wizard and the Whitelaw will have very disasterous consequences for you: You will become obsessed about a tiny place in Peloria called Imth... what? happened already? You have nothing to worry about then :-)
And now some tidbits from the many suns debate.
This is going well. I seem to have hammered out an acceptable theory with Joerg. We are still debating a few points, I propose something that seems perfectly reasonable which he dismisses out of hand as 'Wild speculation'. I wish he'd stop being so stolid... :-)
How Dara Happans wash themselves:
"the pure among us do not deign to contaminate themselves with water but bathe in fragrant oils scented with the perfumes of flowers. We then burn these oils off with a holy flame and a paen of praise to the Emperor Yelm [aka protection 6] leaving behind a sweet smeel and a clean skin"
"for the less pure or those who cannot bear the touch of the holy flame without their base nature flinching, a mundane solution is at hand. We take the residue of that august element [ash] and mix it with water. The divine natue of the august residue then commands the motions of the water. When pressed to mortal flesh contaminated with filth, the divine residue commands the waters to take what is foul and impure and depart, leaving that which is clean and pure behind. [This is actually a primitive version of soap BTW]"
Other things thrashed out but not detailed here is the nature of the relationship between Genert and Yamsur amongst other things.
Cheers
--Peter Metcalfe aka Blue Wizard.
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