alakoring

On 3/6/2020 at 9:03 AM, Sir_Godspeed said:

I aways assumed they were horticulturists working with adzes/hoes, hence their ability to work on wetlands and hence their overall association with vegetable-farming over grain - although the latter might just be me inferring stuff from King of Dragon Pass.

There’s a good chance we inferred that for King of Dragon Pass. It was one of the earliest pieces when Greg Stafford was still approving all artwork individually. (Eventually he realized that it was all good, and stepped out of the pipeline.)

On 3/11/2020 at 2:51 AM, Harrek said:

Thanks for the replies so far. I have both Enclosure #2 and Heroes v1 #6, but I didn't remember that these volumes contain information about Fonrit. I just bought the Revealed Mythologies and Monster Island pdfs, so that is covered also. 

Definitely check out Enclosure 2!

Has anyone mentioned the Fonrit LARP?

In my Umathela game, Fonrit was the looming enemy (to the aldryami and their humans). Simon Bray, Martin Hawley, Peter Metcalfe, and I were working up some material. I've got a work in progress homeland. My draft is from 2007, so people's thinking might have evolved. Here’s an excerpt that talks about Ompalam’s magic:

On 3/2/2020 at 11:34 AM, Jeff said:

how do they plow people always ask

People don’t have much understanding of farming (in our world, the plow is maybe 5000 years old, and farming could be twice as old).

Given that the durulz are sometimes called “half-beasts” it seems possible that they were an extraordinarily successful experiment by the Remakers (to reverse-engineer keets), and didn’t exist in Dragon Pass before the end of the Imperial Age.

Is there a game-finding post here? I am always happy to run HeroQuest but it would be in Tacoma, WA these days. Probably won’t get to GenCon.

“Lights Going Out” lets you continue a game of “Ride Like the Wind,” so you can determine the next chapter in your clan’s saga.

On 12/8/2019 at 6:35 AM, Eff said:

going by the featherwork in Six Ages, perhaps the altepetl of Mesoamerica is a stricter analogy

Not going by the Seven Families of the Riders?

Six Ages is in the App Store for iOS, and is available for macOS from Steam or GOG. Currently, I think working on the next game is higher priority than figuring out the hoops you have to jump through for the Mac App Store.

The Windows version is incompatible with versions of Windows earlier than 10. There is no “blocker,” just an attempt to explain things since Steam lets you buy games that your computer doesn’t have the system requirements for. (Unlike the App Store, just saying.)

On 11/19/2019 at 6:16 AM, Eff said:

Six Ages slightly implies Shargash is a Light deity

Must be pretty slight, I don’t recall that.

My personal suspicion is that Shargash did indeed have a slash & burn aspect (i.e. fertility through fire) but this is no longer worshiped in Dara Happa due to the rise of cities.

Don’t forget that as creatures associated with the Fire rune, hawks can also burn forests. https://bioone.org/journals/Journal-of-Ethnobiology/volume-37/issue-4/0278-0771-37.4.700/Intentional-Fire-Spreading-by-Firehawk-Raptors-in-Northern-Australia/10.2993/0278-0771-37.4.700.short

On 10/31/2019 at 3:41 PM, lordabdul said:

Would people in the Bronze Age have actually uprooted trees to make room for farmland that they can plow

Humans are quite capable of clearing trees to plant crops using stone tools.

On 10/10/2019 at 6:37 PM, Sheliak said:

Riders all consider themselves descendants of Hyalor, and your clan all consider themselves as descendants of Basikan (and maybe also Zenangar), which is probably just as mathematically dubious.

What, you don’t consider “fictive kinship” to have validity?

Nart Sagas was definitely an influence on my Glorantha.

On 10/4/2019 at 10:35 AM, Qizilbashwoman said:

... if we believe Plentonius, which we often don't because he was wrong, confused, or lied to please Khordavu.

His Dendara is probably not a weaving goddess; that's not a distaff but an addi, a phallic symbol of authority and perhaps a thunderbolt. We don't exactly know who Dendara is but she's a rain goddess to the Dara Happans, not a weaving one. Plentonius is pretty clearly wrong here.

Hard to defend Plentonius, though it resembles a spindle whorl and that line looks like thread. Also, in Entekosiad [p.6, p.27, p. 98] Addi is a goddess. I don’t remember if her stick association is due to digging sticks (often associated with women foragers).

Whether or not that image is actually Dendara, I think Plentonius’s claim that she is the Spindle Goddess is right (if only because she has so many aspects).

I didn’t immediately find the rain goddess aspect, can you remind me where that is?

The Gods Wall has
Alfostios (Cooper)
Ostevius (Carpenter)
Venurtera (Potter)
Gerendetho (Spear Shaper)
Dendara (Spindle Goddess)
Yestendos (Reed Boats)

On 9/25/2019 at 2:22 PM, Runeblogger said:

I have played the Mac-OS version and I love it.  

That is the iOS version. On macOS, we have things like mouse rollover, trackpad scrolling, and more keyboard support.

17 October. 

On 9/15/2019 at 9:24 AM, Qizilbashwoman said:

I'd love to play a game in Six Ages, I've even extracted the setting from the wiki into a document in case anyone is interested in a Grey Age campaign... as a Hyalorong!

I started a Hyaloring campaign in the Storm Age (sadly we weren’t able to keep playing), and ran a one-shot essentially in the time of the upcoming “Lights Going Out.” So yes, that lens on Glorantha is totally playable.

My understanding is that every culture has to change in some way to survive the Great Darkness. I assume your Grey Age game would deal with that in some fashion.

I don’t see anything that describes Redalda. (A name that’s spelled at least three ways in The Book of Heortling Mythology…)

Mmm, Walla Walla onions!

On 6/26/2019 at 11:31 PM, Sheliak said:

(Oh, and just because I kept convincing myself that the central peak of the Imther Mountains was secretly Mount Kero Fin: It is not. It just has a similar shape and is also sacred to Orlanth.) 

I can’t remember if you can see Kero Fin from your clan hall, but you might. I’m pretty sure all the Ram clans can. Could this be related to how far they’ve spread?

In 1996, Sandy Petersen wrote
 

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The Lascerdans fed primarily off freshwater manatees, and their infamous slash-and-burn practices were not true slash-and-burn. Rather, the Lascerdans chopped out huge tracts of forest, burnt the wood, and hauled the greenage back to the rivers to use as manatee fodder. They recognized that they got more useful fodder from cleared areas than from the huge tree-covered portions, so they became tree-enemies.

The exact relationship of the Lascerdans and merfolk is still unclear to me. But then, Pamaltela has enough unanswered questions even in the Third Age, let alone earlier times.

 

On 4/18/2019 at 12:02 PM, Sir_Godspeed said:

On the topic of the whole Moon business, keep in mind that some DH texts refer to the White Moon as the "sun" of Mernita (or is that only in Six Ages?).

Pretty sure that is not in Six Ages.

On 4/18/2019 at 8:31 PM, Bill the barbarian said:

Will this game come to the app shop (note, not iTunes)? Anyone know? Dave Hall?

I’m not sure what you mean by “the” app shop. The next release should be macOS and Windows versions that our publisher will sell on Steam, but likely other outlets as well.

On 3/24/2019 at 4:55 PM, Byll said:

In my Glorantha, Grazelander women worship a version of Ekarna (from Six Ages)  and do the bargaining for escorting merchant caravans. 

YGWV, but I don’t think Ekarna (at least as a cult) survives the death of trade during the Great Darkness. And the Pure Horse Clan of the Storm Age Hyalorings was clearly not mainstream back then.

I didn’t want to use the Riskland character because I don’t think that one was Greg’s, but yes it muddles things even more.