Re: Palmaltela, grass, bad days & list question

• In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, "CJ" <cj@...> wrote:
  >
  > Was just reading Glorantha Second Age, and noted two references to
  there
  > being no grass in Pamaltela. That surprised me - I had visions of
  waist
  > deep savannahs of waving grasses. Are there tropical parts of our
  world
  > without grass? I was reall astonished, and it has sparked my
  imagination!
  >
  

First thing, really sorry to hear about your bad day.

Yes, there are examples of tropical parts of the earth with no grasses, just not at this point in time.
Grass didn't evolve until after the age of dinosaurs, so you would have to look back 65 million years to find such an environment, but it was there.

Before the extinction the global flora was dominated by cycads and ferns. I would imagine that Pamaltela would be similar.

Of course, this is assuming a straight earth/glorantha analog. Pamalt could have had something very different in mind.

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]             Received on Sat 05 May 2007 - 17:43:39 EEST