From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Mon 14 Nov 1994 - 18:40:33 EET
RQ-Adventures in Europe:
I've just been informed that Ingo Tschinke has received a master of RQ-A. He will give it to the printers as soon as possible, but we don't expect it printed before Wed, 23.11.94. As soon as we have it, Ingo will send out the copies to people who have subscriptions, and the following week you can expect RQ-A 4 to hit the British game stores, latest iin early December.
Direct subscriptions are available from
Ingo Tschinke
Schevemoorer Landstr. 33
28325 Bremen
Germany
and cost 40 DM for a 5 issue subscription (either cash or eurocheques payable to RuneQuest-Gesellschaft e.V.). We have some back issues of RQ-A 1 through 3 left, so it is still possible to get the full series.
No, Ingo has no e-mail address/access, apart from mine.
> Joerg:
> Let's not start a quibbling match. We both agree there are social changes afoot
> in Kethaela, and that some reactionaries pushed off to Dragon Pass.
Ok. Which changes exactly? Pro-Pharaoh vs. pro-Only Old One factions was the war the Dragon Pass immigrants fled from, most likely.
> Beyond that, make up our own stories.
I repeat impressions I got from people arguing against my Aeolian proposals.
> You suggest that the migrants have regressed to a
> pristine ur-Orlanthi state which was not previously to be found in Heortland,
I have been suggested that the settlers of Dragon Pass did emigrate to worship Orlanth the old way. I don't claim (any more) that the new way is the Aeolian Church, but I'm a bit at a loss what the new way is, then.
I tried to make proposals.
> but you'd surely admit the only reason to do this is that it allows your Aeolian
> Malkionised Heortland to have existed earlier and longer than conventional
> chronology could countenance.
I don't admit this. I admit that I'd like to reconcile the known history of Orlanthi Heortland and the Aeolians, but fact is that the Heortland Orlanthi (and I don't mean the Hendreiki or the Aeolians) of the 16th century are presented somewhat different from those of Sartar.
They worship mostly Barntar, according to the Holy Country description in RQ Companion, which appears to be somewhat different from the Sartarite direct worship of Orlanth. They are as urbanised as modern Sartar, which makes them radically different from the collection of Quivini tribes before Sartar Peacemaker unified them. They are organized in only four tribes, which makes for an average tribal population of 125,000 people, an order of magnitude more than the Sartarite tribes.
> I prefer to make "radical Aeolianisation" more recent, because I can
> better see where Sartarites came from under those circumstances.
What time do you propose for a wider spread of the Aeolian creed in Heortland, then? And to what extent? What is your impression, David (Hall)?
> And because the
> "Mediaeval" West may not have looked that way in the past, IMHO, any more than
> the real middle ages existed unchanged and unchanging for thousands of years.
Proposals for this? I have some ideas...
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-- Joerg Baumgartner joe@sartar.toppoint.de
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