From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Sun 04 Sep 1994 - 01:02:37 EEST
and another things Alex aims at me:
Re: Thaw of Jonatela
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J>> Something along that line. Eastpoint was the first city to have outside J>> contact (the Lunar moon-boat expedition of 1589, see Jar-eel, p.34). J>> [...] A> Yeah, but there seems no direct Lunar agency in the thawing of Timms. I'mA> not quite sure if you having reason to suppose there is, or you're just A> blaming them indirectly.
Not exactly blaming, rather applauding. The Thaw seems to spread from places which have reestablished contact to the outside, like Loskalm (Dormal) and Eastpoint (the Lunars). The boat-people started to spread it further, but the Lunars started the whole thing in the east. If the Thaw had been induced from Loskalm only, I estimate that the Arrolian territories would thaw by about 1627, not 1589.
Re: Red-shifted deer.
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> Joerg:
>> If this (and your cthulhuid story) is the case, I don't think we have >> this beast over here in Germany. True, the red deer does something >> which is described (in German) as "roehren", which seems to be somewhat >> diminutive for "to roar", but while looking somewhat royal, the red deer >> is too skittish to be considered majestic.
> I knew Joerg and I had agreed too long on this thread:
> the Monarch of the Glen, not majestic?
Most of all, we lack the scenery here on the Cimbrian peninsula to make him look majestic. Routinely entering the woods with bow and arrow (for archery tournaments only, hunting must be done with firearms in Germany) makes one think of it as prey rather than as a monarch, too.
> Maybe the Teutonic types have some other species too,
> C. scitticus. ;-) Granted, they don't go around charging emplaced artillery
> positions, but maybe that just makes them non-stupid. Well, not all _that_
> stupid.
While the antlers may look impressive, around here the poor beasts live off cultural land rather than wilderness. As a result, they look (and probably feel) out of place. And a Dachshound is enough to send them running.
>> What I mean is that the beasts of Ygg's isles are the subarctic species >> of large deer with spoon-like antlers a sub-average-sized man can walk >> under.
> Is this plausible for a bunch of small, isolated islands? Not many Alces
> alces on the shetlands, are there?
Ygg's Isles aren't that isolated. Think of the hebrides (inner and outer), or rather of Tromsoe and Lofoten. The Norwegian isles have regular visits from continental elks (sic), which wouldn't cross the Westfjord, but have no problems the minor sunds or fjords. I wouldn't put it past an elk to cross the Ofot-Fjord (near Narvik).
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-- Joerg Baumgartner joe@sartar.toppoint.de
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