scott-martin Posted June 29, 2021 Author Share Posted June 29, 2021 Now this is the stuff! 6 minutes ago, Qizilbashwoman said: *ahem* They still lay eggs There are riding animals that bear live young but they are less true horses than a grotesque lexical error concocted at great magical expense in the far west. Many "horses" you encounter in this fallen modern age are sadly of this type. And there were once other animals who occupied a similar niche in the six-legged south but they wandered off for some reason. Maybe we'll see them again. Quote singer sing me a given Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akhôrahil Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 20 minutes ago, Qizilbashwoman said: *ahem* They still lay eggs Little wonder the Praxians think they're freakish! Maybe zebras don't, which is why they're alright? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baron Wulfraed Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 And of course, hippogryphs are what you get when a gryphon spends too much time playing with its food. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joerg Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 6 hours ago, Akhôrahil said: Little wonder the Praxians think they're freakish! Maybe zebras don't, which is why they're alright? If Praxians think that laying eggs is freakish, why do they tolerate Ostrich riders and Bolo riders? (lizards, not tanks) Does painting stripes on your horse to make it pass as a zebra actually make it into an infertile cavalry zebra? 1 Quote Telling how it is excessive verbis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baron Wulfraed Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 12 hours ago, Joerg said: If Praxians think that laying eggs is freakish, why do they tolerate Ostrich riders and Bolo riders? (lizards, not tanks) Ostrich and Bolo lizards aren't mammals... 12 hours ago, Joerg said: Does painting stripes on your horse to make it pass as a zebra actually make it into an infertile cavalry zebra? I'm sorry, but the tail would give it away. Zebra have tails closer related to donkeys -- narrow short-hair but long, with a tuft near the end. Horse tails have long hairs, but underneath are quite short. Hmmm, are zonkeys fertile? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott-martin Posted June 30, 2021 Author Share Posted June 30, 2021 5 minutes ago, Baron Wulfraed said: Hmmm, are zonkeys fertile? Issaries will buy it! 1 Quote singer sing me a given Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Cule Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 Argrath split himself into seven parts (or was split: there was a dragonnewt with a very sharp edge involved) in order to be able to carry out the dread task his inscrutable masters laid upon him: to end the Third Age with the death of the Gods. The parts reassembled after he had become Prince of Sartar and King of Dragon Pass. Not all of them survived. I wrote some poems back in the 80s/90s about this: called Rejected Notes From The Composite History they went on the old mailing list and one of them THE WOLFRUNNER'S SONG was published in TRADETALK. 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormi Phengaria Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Umatum was an utuma. 2 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius West Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 (edited) Belintar was the last Godlearner, and hid out as a reclusive merman before body hopping a drowning fisherman in Choralinthor bay. Edited July 1, 2021 by Darius West 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leingod Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 On 6/30/2021 at 9:35 AM, Baron Wulfraed said: Hmmm, are zonkeys fertile? IRL? The males are sterile and most females are almost totally infertile. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 I am CERTAIN that Arroin got his non-elf name by helping folk that elves had put an arrow in. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akhôrahil Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 8 hours ago, Ned said: I am CERTAIN that Arroin got his non-elf name by helping folk that elves had put an arrow in. I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an Arroin to the knee? 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabda Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 8 hours ago, Ned said: I am CERTAIN that Arroin got his non-elf name by helping folk that elves had put an arrow in. "why do they call him Arroin when he's the one that takes Arro-out?" 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlanthatemyhamster Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 On 6/29/2021 at 9:59 AM, MOB said: Re the Windstop aka The Great Winter. To survive, people right across that 250km circle afflicted took to heroquesting to try to break the Great Winter. Serendipitously – regardless of the paths taken, powers sought, or gods invoked – all the successful heroquest attempts culminated on Clay/Disorder/Earth 1622, the same day as the Battle of Iceland in Sartar. 'I Fought We Won' and all that... Umm, Ok. Crazy! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlanthatemyhamster Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 52 minutes ago, Akhôrahil said: I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an Arroin to the knee? Hardest game in the world, that. Thirty years man and boy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Biles Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 On 7/1/2021 at 8:24 AM, Darius West said: Belintar was the last Godlearner, and hid out as a reclusive merman before body hopping a drowning fisherman in Choralinthor bay. Belintar was obviously Saruman, jumping universes so no one would know who he was. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Cule Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 Belintar was a time traveller from the bleak future of the time of writing KING OF SARTAR. One of his names was 'the Harshax' which is all the proof I needed. (I believed it before I read that.) This may or may not tie in with the truly loopy theory some people have that dragons are moving in the opposite time direction to everyone else. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir_Godspeed Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 43 minutes ago, Michael Cule said: Belintar was a time traveller from the bleak future of the time of writing KING OF SARTAR. One of his names was 'the Harshax' which is all the proof I needed. (I believed it before I read that.) This may or may not tie in with the truly loopy theory some people have that dragons are moving in the opposite time direction to everyone else. Hitched a ride on a dragon through time sounds amazing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreJarosch Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 (edited) Belintars story is a twisted (and gender swapped) version of "The Little Mermaid". Belintar lived in the ocean as a merman, as an aprentice/assistant of a powerful sea witch. The sea witch wanted to unite the merman tribes, so that they would become one big merman nation, but she wasn´t successful. During his training with the witch and studying the human artifacts that cover the sea floor (God Learner remains from Slontos?) he got illuminated, something the sea witch unsuccessfully approached for herself since ages. He traded his knowledge of how he had become illuminated to the witch for getting legs and becoming a land dweller. No longer seeing his merfolk as superior to the human race Belintar swam ashore what would become his Holy Country and united the local human populations into one kingdom. Edited July 5, 2021 by AndreJarosch 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qizilbashwoman Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 On 7/5/2021 at 3:02 PM, AndreJarosch said: Belintars story is a twisted (and gender swapped) version of "The Little Mermaid". Belintar lived in the ocean as a merman, as an aprentice/assistant of a powerful sea witch. The sea witch wanted to unite the merman tribes, so that they would become one big merman nation, but she wasn´t successful. During his training with the witch and studying the human artifacts that cover the sea floor (God Learner remains from Slontos?) he got illuminated, something the sea witch unsuccessfully approached for herself since ages. He traded his knowledge of how he had become illuminated to the witch for getting legs and becoming a land dweller. No longer seeing his merfolk as superior to the human race Belintar swam ashore what would become his Holy Country and united the local human populations into one kingdom. this is canon now 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Cule Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 On 7/4/2021 at 11:59 PM, Sir_Godspeed said: Hitched a ride on a dragon through time sounds amazing. Which explains why he looked a little queasy as he marched up out of the sea to his destiny. Incidentally, in my Glorantha it was Belintar that Kallyr was trying to bring back when she attempted the Short Lightbringer's Quest. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akhôrahil Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 4 hours ago, Michael Cule said: Incidentally, in my Glorantha it was Belintar that Kallyr was trying to bring back when she attempted the Short Lightbringer's Quest. Good way to show the difference between her and Argrath. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill the barbarian Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 ‘Bout time I posted... From discord 1 1 Quote ... remember, with a TARDIS, one is never late for breakfast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qizilbashwoman Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 2 hours ago, Bill the barbarian said: ‘Bout time I posted... From discord TFW the best at the table is a woman, TFW she realises she's just essentially won the right to have her brain eaten 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godweyn Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 Then masks and more masks, the story rumbles and changes thanks to the point of view of the winners, So like I said a while ago gods and heroes are obviously lost or confused. So today I present to you my new change in history, Ulanin The Rider, husband of Orgorvale Summer, is not very well known other than for this. But I say that his old name was very well known, at a certain period he was known as Hyalor The First Rider. Once a mortal man and ancestor of the Hyalorings. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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