Re: [WorldofGlorantha] Re: The Old Man and the Feldichi

On 08/12/2007, donald_at_Y77yUcEnz14Xlo0Z-CdxDHP2U039Xpdsc2k2e8MXeYRfMAAXy64hjPzmgdGEgiRQO78ZW.yahoo.invalid <donald_at_Y77yUcEnz14Xlo0Z-CdxDHP2U039Xpdsc2k2e8MXeYRfMAAXy64hjPzmgdGEgiRQO78ZW.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
> The dwarves have a backup copy. Unfortunatly they need the World Machine
> fixed to read it properly. And they need to read the backup to tell them
> how to fix the World Machine. They are working on the problem.....

Not even Glorantha is free from the perils of technological obsolence in archival work! Aieee!

> The Aldryami are supposed to have a shared memory within each
> forest. So unless the whole forest is destroyed the memory still
> exists. And I can imagine a forest faced with destruction sending
> out messengers to other forests to pass on the memory. Not that
> it will work every time but usually.

I wonder if the memory propogates as pollen or some other form of particle. It might be neat to have the destroyers of a forest breath in the wind-borne ash and start to have weird memories...

It might even be a useful weapon for cultural imperialism: weaponised elvish mimetic spores or something... "You'll see our way soon..."

-- 
John Machin
"Nothing is more beautiful than to know the All."
- Athanasius Kircher, 'The Great Art of Knowledge'.