From: Bryan J. Maloney (jacobus@sonata.cc.purdue.edu)
Date: Sun 27 Feb 1994 - 20:20:54 EET
I just don't put runes in the same category as Bolzmann's constant.
Runes are magical--this means that, almost by definition, they must be
self-contradictory, inconsistent, and not universal EVEN IF THEY ARE
UNIVERSAL. Do I contradict myself? Yes, I contradict myself--I contain
multitudes. The one is many the many are one. All is nothing, and to be
nothing is to be everything. Sound like enlightenment--were I to be
within Glorantha it woul, but I am outside Glorantha, so I cannot be
limited by a single culture's view of magical reality--that luxury is
only available to those inside Glorantha. Now, if runes were entirely
consistent, universal, and invariant, they would be in the same category
as the gas laws, but they would also not be magical. Let's put it another
way--it has already been established that the runes are a God-Learner
construct, so there would probably have been a great deal of effort on the
part of the Powers that Be to ensure that the runes were NOT as all-powerful
and all-encompassing as the God-Learners stated.
One more thing: Just because it appears in RQII or RQIII doesn't mean it's
true--after all, there is no Elmal in either of them, no? There is an Elmal
now...
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