Blessings from the Blue Wizard!

From: Peter Metcalfe, CAPE Canty (CHEN190@csc.canterbury.ac.nz)
Date: Sat 20 Aug 1994 - 14:54:14 EEST


Harald Writes


   

> While we're talking about rivers and Dara Happa, has anyone done
> anything with the other great Pelorian river, the Arcos? I realized
> recently that there is a basic similarity of names in this region which
> suggests a some strength inherent in this area.
   

> Z arkos the Plentonius name for the area.
> Arcos the great river from the Elf Sea.
> Dzhar st typically read as Jarst, the northern realm.
> Dzhar sting typically read as Garsting, the southern realm, though
> I give it a soft instead of hard sounding here.
> (and of course there is also BalaZar)

   

> I might surmise that the original name could be Zarkost. Perhaps a Dara
> Happan invasion transformed the name into Dara Zharkost and that
> degenerated into D'zhar'st or Jarst.
   

You forget the Pentish name for the Redlands H'har As Jing. Bound to be a connection in there somewhere.

Sandy Writes in response to Harald concerning Evil Godlearner Plans


>>Harald Smith:
>>Now that we have achieved the switch of Peter Whitelaw for Peter 
>>Metcalfe, we should anticipate the imminent demise ofsome aspect of  
>>the Daily. 

>	I think we should move on to the next step, since our  
>experiment has been so successful.

Can anybody tell me what were the two lands affected by the goddess switch. I do not think that Kralorela is one because the False Dragons ring 'stopped being godlearners'. Alas this leaves me without a land to steal Dendara from (I don't hink she's worshipped in Teshnos either) and I don't know where Ernalda was switched from. Is the switch still in effect?

Klaus


>I will end with a somewhat related question: The immortality spell
>requires some interesting components. What would work in
>Glorantha? Several things, I suppose. A Vadeli baby? Sandy said
>some time ago that the Veldang are really Vadeli. Does that mean
>that a Veldang baby would  do? Who in Fonrit knows? Or are the
>Vadeli more like the church of immortality?

Veldang are actually Vadeli? Only the Blue ones aka wizards would be. In any case I thought they were all originally Warearan. Note I call myself the Blue Wizard because I didn't know what the Vadeli did to the kids when I thought of the name. I suspect the vadeli actually require one of their own kids for the ritual...

Cheers

The Blue Wizard aka Peter Metcalfe



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