- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, "ttrotsky2" <TTrotsky@...> wrote:
>
> --- samclau wrote:
> >
> > I figured as well that it would be a pretty impressive tunnel when
this
> > was first mentioned, with pretty impressive flows of water. Good
to see
> > the figures though :)
>
> I think the word 'tunnel' may be somewhat misleading here. At least
> according to the old maps, its more accurately a strait that runs
> under the glacier, separating the Fronelan land mass to the south from
> the Altinelan land mass to the north. You can see the eastern end of
> it on the modern maps (just north of Erigia), because that's ice free.
>
Thanks for the clarification!
Also, on the whole water flows thing, I don't think that there is any
requirement for water flows, if I understand Gloranthan tides
correctly. Does not all the seas go up and down at the exact same
time, as the blue moon rises and plummets? So it is clearly not a
case of volumes of water moving from one place to another, rather in
Glorantha water is mystically compressible.
I think the importance of the 'tunnel' is therefore
symbolic/magical/mythical: It connects the White Sea to the rest of
the oceans, therefore it is part of that same whole of 'the seas' and
therefore is affected like them.
Which also means it should have been affected by the closing? I
wonder if that did anything to ice floes?
-Bryan
Received on Sun 01 Apr 2007 - 17:37:59 EEST