Re: [WorldofGlorantha] Adept's questions on chaos

From: Michael Hitchens <michaelh_at_nkpj3dtsJjEjw3IU8aDmxnSXgnhFnH8NIE4y6Gs3BfIf6-Fo-BrWE9Ucx_prvwE8CIzi_c>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:49:27 +1000 (EST)

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, David Cake wrote:

> At 2:15 PM +0100 18/4/07, David Scott wrote:
>> On 18 Apr 2007, at 13:57, L.Castellucci wrote:
>>
>>> That's an interesting tidbit. I wonder what the Theists called it
>>> before?
>>
>> Predark. It's referred to that in Storm Tribe and Thunder Rebels and
>> in other older sources.
>>
>
> And the Solars didn't really distinguish chaos from other
> hideous monsters (ie trolls)
>
> The Predark is really interesting - it implies that the early
> Orlanthi thought chaos had always been present in the universe and
> always been a danger.

Err. I agree with the first, but not so sure about the second. I remember the (god learner I think) bit about how chaos was ok until it came into the world (CoT p.19). I wonder if the Orlanthi think the same? That is, it predates the universe and was ok outside it? Or was it always bad in their opinion?

Michael

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Dr. Michael Hitchens
Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing Macquarie University
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