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On 3/11/2019 at 9:00 AM, Sir_Godspeed said:

Glorantha was not designed bottom-up to be linguistically coherent

I think even when Greg was trying to be, the results didn’t look quite right.

-a is not consistently a feminine suffix, for example: Orstohra was a Heortling king.

On 2/7/2019 at 6:17 AM, Sir_Godspeed said:

Six Ages also "reveals" that Elmal is not a native Orlanthi deity, but rather the "exiled" sun god of Verapur, the southern city of the Decapolis. As the Verapurans (the Hyalorings and Samnali) chose to ride out rather than join the other Dara Happans in the ice dome …

While I’m happy to see the myths subject to multiple interpretation, 1. The Riders are from Nivorah (GRoY.30); 2. Verapur is a northern city.

Without thinking about this a whole lot, Peloria has tended to be ruled by empires, and empires tend to leave local rulers intact.

Could well be, though since neither the horse people nor the Vingkotlings are Dara Happans, I assume the Dara Happan version of their names is incorrect.

On 1/29/2019 at 10:13 AM, Tindalos said:

That name (or rather Ustrandlings) is found in King of Sartar (page 77 of the new edition), as well as in SKoH and BoHM.

-ing is commonly used for "children/descendants of", suggesting that some prominent figure from them was known as Ustrand at some point. It's possible it was a corruption of Vuranostum.

Heort’s people are Heortlings, so it does seem likely these are Ustrand’s people. Of course, what Heortlings call others can be anything at all — “Horse Spawn” was Greg's term (used for the Grazers in the early days of resettlement).

IMO Vuranostum is a corruption of Vuranoste — note all the Grazer names like Hendroste, Jardanroste, etc. And note that the Dara Happan script has a glyph for -um.

On 1/11/2019 at 1:41 PM, Sir_Godspeed said:

I remember that Peloria is filled with various megalithic structures, like dolmens or something similar - so it might be a nod towards that? No idea, to be honest.

I wanted to get those in, but the map on p.348 of Guide to Glorantha shows them all way too far north (and probably under the Glacier). That’s always the problem with Glorantha, there’s always cool stuff just outside the map…

Like Peter said. You pay the malasps for protection against the malasps. As beings of the sea, they have plenty of ways to deal with you if you don’t pay up.

Other parasites are free to attack your ship, as long as they too have paid the malasps for the right to be on the ocean while doing so.

Hmm, given it’s from Sandy, this is probably relevant 

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The word Euphausia derives from Greek eu for good or true, combined with -phausia for shining or light emitting.

though I still don’t see any Fire Tribe Lightbringers myself. (Elmal guards the stead.)

I wrote some memories of working and playing with Greg at https://kingofdragonpass.blogspot.com/2018/10/farewell-greg.html

On 8/12/2018 at 8:57 PM, jeffjerwin said:

The warrior woman (Phausia) therein looks like Yelorna/Sun Daughter, rather than Vinga.

To me, she was closer to Humakt. (I can’t recall if this was from Sandy or not.)

Tracked down http://glorantha.temppeli.org/digest/gd8/2001.03/2170.html but haven’t located Sandy’s original online.

I got the Nine Lightbringers from Sandy Petersen, a post on the old Glorantha Digest if I recall correctly.

The Umathelans had been experimental subjects for the God Learners, so they sort of had to assemble their own Lightbringers without access to full pantheon.

On 7/3/2018 at 4:48 PM, JonL said:

Loving all the Hyaloring lore, gods & myths.  How much of this is new vs dug out from old essays & Stafford Library materials?

The whole game is dug up from the Stafford Library. As in KoDP, we had to create new myths, but we used existing material whenever possible.

The rune was supposed to give it away: the Storm Age.

…which leads to https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/six-ages-ride-like-the-wind/id934012726?ls=1&mt=8&at=10laGk

So 

happened. 

On 6/10/2018 at 4:06 AM, metcalph said:

Tries to figure out what the Six Ages are:

We may have to go to 11…

Thanks for posting the trailer! We're a little behind on updating the web site (https://sixages.com), hope to have it finalized by the time we release.

11 hours ago, metcalph said:

Just to be clear, you are referring to the Codex Ivesti p194-197?

 

No, the entire document is less legible than it should be. Every page has ink interfering with the ability to read the words. (The pages you call out are exceptionally bad because they have symbols under words. But the entire document should have a pure white background.)

p. 51: The illo should be flipped since dragonewts are lefthanded (p. 48 is more ambiguous)

p. 119: warlike should not be hyphenated

The text has graphics behind  it.

I’m aware this is supposed to look cool. But the book is meant to be read. There’s plenty of attractive design without a dirty beige background making things hard to read.

The text has graphics behind  it.

I’m aware this is supposed to look cool, and it does. But the book is meant to be read. There’s plenty of attractive design without a dirty beige background and giant runes making things hard to read.