From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Fri 26 Aug 1994 - 11:34:39 EEST
Keith Smith:
> IMO, Etyries was one of the four subcults established by Issaries at
> the dawn of time ( four sons was a typo since most gods were male at the time
> of the CoP write-up).
I suspect that the four "sons" are Harst, Garzeen, Goldtongue, and Herald. While gender is somewhat uncertain with gods, pettyfogging distinctions like "son" and "grandson" are triply so.
> Also, Etyries is and was worshipped as a seperate
> subcult since the dawn of time.
Possible, but at least equally possible that the thousand years referred to is retconning/Lunar propaganda/mere convention. After all, if you were an ordinary Garzeen priestess called Eytries Fakebeard, and were setting up hero cult to yourself, wouldn't you jazz up your parentage and history as much as possible to Sell Yourself to the credulous masses?
> Orlanth is
> given the spell of Darkwalk (which confers invisibilty AND silence), which
> all sources state he stole from Kyger Litor. Although Kyger Litor has no
> such spell, Argan Argar does. How does one account for this????
This is due to the little-known fact that after someone steals something from you, you don't have it any more.
Alex.
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