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Qizilbashwoman

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  1. you are either the blade or the stone - Lorgar, Bearer of the Word
  2. I mean, what we call "religion" is not at all the same thing as "when we do even mundane things it can have divine resonance because power is woven into every corner of Glorantha". It's not what we'd call religion, but I reckon very little doesn't have some kind of intent to it, and intent > power.
  3. Blood Bowl is such a shallow imitation of it
  4. for real, they're terrifying but a coherent part of the Earth system, but Humakti are just wandering Death ronins. Gorians are at least part of an established social system with a clearly-defined social role; Humakti cultists are, in the end, just unmoored Death cultists. Even Storm Bull cultists are likely more disruptive.
  5. i think the term "troll" here has always been a misnomer; they're part demon because they have been solo-worshipping the Darkness for thousands of years, not part-uz-proper.
  6. I mean, Ronald Reagan is dead, we can always celebrate that instead 😉
  7. I hadn't any idea who he was; it was merely delightful to see how they managed the "how do we make this required film D&D encounter with a dragon memorable" issue
  8. i'd like to take this moment to give the men who deliberately imported eucalyptus trees a nice boot in the snoot, "why yes let's plant poisonous explosive fire trees since we are running out of whales to use as fuel"
  9. i'm reminded of the early modern K'ich'e Maya narrative of the many creations in the Popol Vuh: first purely earth, then wood and reeds (now New World Monkeys), and finally real humans from divine blood and cornmeal. Between each, the world suffered a catastrophic crisis.
  10. themberchaud is the best Chonky Boi. he's a Whole Unit.
  11. I thought it was good summer fare, and you didn't even mention the dragon
  12. One of my favorite series of blog posts is about dystheism (god(s) exist(s) and they hate us) https://goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2014/11/god-hates-orcs.html
  13. I have always said that nothing so fundamentally changes Glorantha's relationship to real life premodern societies than the safety and surety of women and children's health. This is also why I've always said that the population would much more resemble the modern world's than any premodern society. Nobody needs 18 children to ensure some survive, and women don't suffer and die. There absolutely must be ways to control population growth ("silphium", but also preventing pregnancy, or maybe spells) because no society can survive a tenfold growth every generation. Milk supplements are available in ancient herding cultures, meaning women are once again fertile rapidly after birth, and since this is also a factor in Glorantha, there must be routine ways to control births.
  14. o god now I can't unthink Argrath the murder twink
  15. notably the princess-abbesses (Fürstabtissinen) of Quedlinburg
  16. i must say that article was fascinating to read, particularly the local court system The question is: does ship service motivate the Kingdom of Logres? I'd guess that it does given that while the Matter of Britain is Romano-British and Saxon England, it is set in high chivalry, and the Cinque Ports were established right after 1000 CE.
  17. Qizilbashwoman

    Hazia?

    I always imagined it was a little bit opium and a little bit jimsonweed. I figured given the overall "North American West" feel of the game, jimsonweed ("the devil apple") was the inspiration but with added addictive behavior and much less toxic.
  18. if there is no self, then what is the difference between a p-zombie and a normal person? nothing. consciousness is an emergent value basically, "we fake it till we make it" is how Buddhists define consciousness. the idea of a p-zombie is incoherent because there is no fundamental identity separate from the things that make us us.
  19. This reminds me that I remain perplexed by Western philosophy because I learned only Buddhist philosophy in college, and it was my minor. There is no problem with p-zombies for a Buddhist, for example: the idea is incoherent. I don't know how I graduated Harvard without reading Kant, but I did. I didn't read a single Western philosopher!
  20. the disease situation is far more acute
  21. Can you provide the info here? My understanding is as follows (sample source https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6899786/ ) They are distinct populations but the domestic Bactrian is a limit gene-set from within the Wild Bactrian population probably dating to about 3000+ BCE. Bactrian domestication was likely in northestern Central Asia and the Subarctic, but it really became popular in the Iranian region. The dromedary is a recent domestication, within the 1st milennium and probably in the Arabian Peninsula. The three old-world species of Camelids are dromedaries, domestic Bactrian, and wild Bactrian. They can all interbreed with each other, and they produce sterile offspring with the two New World lineages (Vicugna and Lama). The New World lineages (llama, wanako/guanaco v. vicuña and alpaca) can create fertile breeds as well despite being in two separate suborders.
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