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Vizbillie

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  1. The building site of the Temple is really a small city. More than I'd considered. Probably in the top 5 in Dragon Pass, or at least close. Tremendous amount of infrastructure required for support of the endeavor. Probably should start investigating Egyptian pyramid building conditions. Oh, and apparently for mining and digging right handed Paleolithic peoples used right side antlers due to the efficiency of motion, left handers the opposite for the same reason.
  2. Thanks! The timeline information is very helpful. Puts things into good context. Starting to read up on mining from Paleolithic to Roman to Middle Eastern to get real world analogues. Also stoneworking. Interesting tidbit, in Paleolithic times, deer antlers were used for mining picks, and the ratio of right and left antlers in use then mirror the present day ratios of right and left handed people.
  3. Trying to see what details are available about the actual building of the Reaching Moon temple before the Dragonrise. Timeline, details of location, construction, that sort of thing. Lots of slave powered construction obviously. Local mining? Were there shaft mining for elements as well as surface mining for stone? And always the interesting question of how you keep prisoners safely working when spirit magic is so accessible. I haven't been able to find much in the way of granular information on this pivotal project. Any suggestions?
  4. Best joke I played on Orlanth this age! (Eurmal said for the tenth time...)
  5. There's this theoretical rendering of The Trickster that puts them into four different levels or tiers of power and behavior, grading from one to the other. The first level is the bumbling fool. This is a trickster whose jokes, japes, and tricks always get twisted from their intent, and fail and backfire on their originator. They cause themselves (and unlucky others) trouble. The second level is where the trickster has developed more power and skill, but the tricks are still somewhat disorderly: They may be too weak, or two powerful; Hit the right target or the wrong target; twist out of control, or be too focused to have the intended effect. And so on. The third level of the trickster is one where they have grown full into their power, and they often set out to pay everyone back who slighted or wronged them on their journey. The tricks work; though as always, collatoral damage may spray far and wide. The fourth level of the trickster is the World Ruler. Look around, all you see looks so random. Mythically, you can look at different cultural trickster figures, and fit them into this sort of paradigm. Most Gloranthan trickster worshippers would be in the first two categories.
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