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Sir_Godspeed

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  1. Isn't this pretty mainstream belief, or did I miss something? I definitely read it like that, at least. Spare a coin for them! Hmm... both intriguing thoughts.
  2. I hope you all are finding some joy or contentment at this time of year, despite the hardships. I wish you all a very Peaceful Yule.
  3. Sure. Just do it. I don't see the point in going on and on about it.
  4. Complaining about Argrath seems a bit like complaining about how Alexander the Great is a Mary Sue or whatever.
  5. I like that there are individuals out there that just straight out disregard the "rules" of the setting (ie. are just exceptional in the sense that the come off as exceptions). It adds a sense of wonder even after you start grokking what typically goes and doesn't go in a setting. Plus, it kinda displays a lofty goal for long-term RPers: "Something like this could be you, down the line." Not so much for the brute power, but more for putting your mark and impact on the setting. Iunno, she's cool.
  6. Yeah, this whole conflict always seemed needlessly contrived to me, or a Gloranthan fixe idèe.
  7. What if the bat is a holdover from the (putative) pre-Brightface takeover. The Green Age, when the sky had a day-night cycle? It was already present when Yelm (or even Aether) usurped the sky from the White Queen. And then it was marginalized until the Storm Age. Wild speculation, just for fun.
  8. Well, the plausible, albeit somewhat underwhelming answer might just be that the EWF didn't care, and did not have any cause to care.
  9. (Not so) wild theory: just like humans kinda got absorbed into the different elemental pantheons and are more or less changed for it over the course of the God Time, it's very possible that birds also experienced something similar. For Storm in particular, it seems to have a practice of basically adopting or absorbing anything and everything it can get its gusts on. Maybe it's a side effect of being the late-coming element. 2 late 2 create, in time to... uh, convert.
  10. The only thing that comes to mind is that several Norse gods could and did shapeshift into birds.
  11. So is it a case of someone else moving in and basically "reviving" the Dorastor name with a slightly different or expanded territory, but not really having any direct continuity with it? The Tanisoran nobles reviving the name of Seshnela comes to mind, though this is obviously very different.
  12. I'm going off memory here, so some of it might be faulty: Wind Children live on mountaintops or along cliffsides around sacred storm peaks, so there's a good deal of them around dragon pass as well as in the Shan Shan. Probably some other places, but those are the biggies. Religiously they are Storm Worshippers. Probably moreso than the human Orlanthi, who in comparison have a very syncretized religion. My impression is that they're a lot closer to the primordial storm/air identity than human storm worshippers are. I'm not entire certain about the general cultural aspects, but I'm fairly certain they are hunter-gatherers, although they might trade for certain items. I'm gonna make an educated guess and say that they are likely magically very powerful, even if they don't build empires or anything like that.
  13. Does anyone have any info on the Beastmen of Old Seshnela?
  14. Aren't Rune Affinities also to a degree "discovered" during Initiation?
  15. If this were the RW, I'd argue that birthday celebrations would be rare, as very high infant mortality might work against viewing the birth as the most significant moment in a person's life. A later date, like a naming day, could be considered the moment where a mere infant gets bestowed with social personhood, and perhaps achieve spiritual identity (becoming bestowed with a soul, if you will.) There's a few cultures that come to mind that behave like this in the RW. HOWEVER, infant mortality is lower in Glorantha than the RW, and the Orlanthi at least, appear to do a lot of spiritual work (Runic affinities, making forecasts, etc.) during a child's birth or around there, so a birth-day might be more significant to them.
  16. This might be controversial, but I think Gloranthan Christmas/Yule is just Sacred Time. They're obviously vastly different in terms of content, but in terms of being "the big one" out of the year's holidays, and at the tail end of the year, they thematically fit together. And not to offend anyone's religious sensibilities or to leave out the secular or non-Christian meanings of the midwinter holidays, but Jesus in Christianity has an, uh, "Lightbringer-y" vibe, even if his actual Lightbringer-y Quest took place during Easter and not Christmas (pah, details!) Wild headcanon: Glorantha's Santa would be Grandfather Mortal who once during the year gets to be alive again, and gives out gifts to all his mortal descendants, before returning to the Underworld.
  17. Given the fairly communal nature of Orlanthi, it's possible that they instead celebrate an age-group's initiation day or something. But, well, anything's possible. Calendars are well-developed in Glorantha, and highly reliable (as is writing, moreso than in the RW historically) so it wouldn't be too hard to keep tabs of people's birthday or nameing day, for example.
  18. To spin this further: Fungi came into being after Death was brought into the Middle World, and Flamal was killed. Flamal descended to the Underworld, where he coupled with a Darkness deity, and produced fungi: the Darkness plant that primarily survives by eating dead matter. I know there's a dozen ways to pull this apart, but narratively I think it's satisfying.
  19. According to Jeff, there are indeed places in Glorantha where this is the general belief.
  20. I really wish they'd just make fungus "Darkness plants" and end it there. Not Aldryami, but certainly Flamali. No need to bring bloody cellular biology into this.
  21. This was the source that made Glorantha understandable and inviting for me, so I'd second this as well!
  22. There's a lot of variables working here. Celestial objects were starting to move around at least* as early as Umath's careening through the Sky, and that's not only pre-Time, that's pre-Storm Age too. By the time of the Storm Age, the sky was turning blue, the stars had come out, and various planets seem to have gotten their current trajectory (I think?) so what Plentonius' reference means depends on when it is supposedly set. Or, well, it depends on what purpose Plentonius has for slandering it as well, of course., but that goes without saying. Working with Dara Happan ideas of suns and what they meant in the Golden Age, it seems plausible that Plentonius was referring to an object of celestial light that was "supposed" to be stationary above one of the city-states, but then wasn't. I don't recall if the cities are supposed to still have those things by the time he described Sedenya, so I can't comment further. (*There's the possibility of a cyclical Sky during the Green Age as well, but I don't think that's terribly relevant to Plentonius.)
  23. This is all true, but not what I adressed above.
  24. It basically means that the modern Praxian Beast Riders appear to be derived from the same God-Time origin as the original Orlanthi, being groups of Storm-worshipping, animal-herding pastoralists that migrated northwards from the Spike. They were perhaps like cousins of the Vingkotlings, to oversimplify things. As you say, 1600 years is a long time, and they've evolved very differently in that period. The Beast Riders got the Survival Pact and integrated groups with no apparent Storm origin, etc. On the other hand, the Theyalans spread/converted groups across most of Central and Western Genertela, became mostly sedentary, and integrated their mythology into an overarching Orlanthi-Pelorian synthesis of sorts, which would later meld with Malkioni ideas to form the current Monomyth as we know it. At least that seems to be the gist of it. This is not terribly relevant to the discussion, although what is more relevant might be the more or less constant cultural interaction between Prax and Dragon Pass, with lots of cultural exchange there, throughout Time.
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