Your Dumbest Theory

[Akhôrahil]

6 hours ago, metcalph said:

I suspect what lower quarters the satyr has depends on the species in the area.

This also seems to me to be the MGF solution.

[Akhôrahil]

Among troll Arkati, "Occlusion" is the term for the praiseworthy type of "Endarkening". Being "Illuminated", "Enlightened" or "Seeing the Light" are all bad things.

[AlHazred]

5 hours ago, Akhôrahil said:

Among troll Arkati, "Occlusion" is the term for the praiseworthy type of "Endarkening". Being "Illuminated", "Enlightened" or "Seeing the Light" are all bad things.

I figured it was a different kind of "illumination," being the rays of the Black Sun.

[Ali the Helering]

Uz might not use the same framework as humans, with the dark-light polarity.  They could just as easily use hot-cold, with the result that an Arkati becomes "Really Cool" or "Chilled".😁

[Akhôrahil]

3 hours ago, Ali the Helering said:

Uz might not use the same framework as humans, with the dark-light polarity.  They could just as easily use hot-cold, with the result that an Arkati becomes "Really Cool" or "Chilled".😁

Hence, the Arkati troll in deep meditation is " just chillin' ".

[AlHazred]

6 hours ago, Akhôrahil said:

Hence, the Arkati troll in deep meditation is " just chillin' ".

So the whole troll plot to extend Valind's glacier is misunderstood? They just took "get the humans to chill out" particularly literally?

[Sir_Godspeed]

They could easily be using "just vibing" as well.

[Ali the Helering]

Presumably their equivalent to Occluded would therefore be Smokin', and would require green-face and a yellow suit?

[scott-martin]

[Joerg]

24 minutes ago, scott-martin said:

If that on top is a future map of the US, you need a Snodal or you get the Middle Sea Empire...

Or are you telling us that the post-Argrath Glorantha is a reflection of our world in the invisible moon? A cosmic glamour? That explains how it becomes spherical.

[jajagappa]

1 hour ago, scott-martin said:

Fascinating to play with that!

Sog City = NYC?

 

[Eff]

3 hours ago, scott-martin said:

Well no wonder I identified Carmania with Michigan. 

(And not just for the inside baseball joke of identifying Spolites with Yoopers!)

Edited October 1, 2021 by Eff

[jajagappa]

1 hour ago, Eff said:

Well no wonder I identified Carmania with Michigan. 

I like how it puts the Twin Cities more-or-less at the Crater/Glamour.  And the Hell Crack is somewhere around Yellowstone, which seems to fit.

[simonh]

George R. R. Martin has admitted the map of Westeros started out as an upside down Ireland, but a lot bigger.

[Akhôrahil]

24 minutes ago, simonh said:

George R. R. Martin has admitted the map of Westeros started out as an upside down Ireland, but a lot bigger.

Tough Guide to Fantasyland map (Diana Wynne-Jones):

[Sir_Godspeed]

1 hour ago, Akhôrahil said:

Tough Guide to Fantasyland map (Diana Wynne-Jones):

You joke, but: 

[Alex]

On 10/1/2021 at 11:10 PM, simonh said:

George R. R. Martin has admitted the map of Westeros started out as an upside down Ireland, but a lot bigger.

So Winterfell's stunt-double is actually Bandallon, deep in House Tyrell territory!  (AKA Castle Ward, Co. Down, Nrn Irn.)

[Alex]

On 10/2/2021 at 1:19 AM, Sir_Godspeed said:

You joke, but:

Only barely.  I once started struggling through The Dark Lord of Derkholm, and it really was no laughing matter.

[Alex]

On 10/1/2021 at 10:50 PM, jajagappa said:

I like how it puts the Twin Cities more-or-less at the Crater/Glamour.

As a (recovering) Bears fan and intermittent Uroxi symp, this identity makes a lot of sense to me.

Maintain a strong D-fence against Chaos!

 

[Richard S.]

It's 3am here we fucking go. First some assumptions to base this on that I think are correct enough:

1. Time in the otherworld doesn't correspond to mortal time, especially as you go deeper in.

2. Most souls get reincarnated after a stint in the underworld.

3. Argrath is very much an Arkat-like figure.

Now the theory: Argrath is a proper reincarnation of Arkat, and his rule gets progressively more batshit as time goes on since Arkat's self starts to impose on stuff, kinda like a certain spoilery thing in the Wheel of Time books. However, unlike that, there's no reconciliation and Argrath ends up giving Arkat the unhealable wound when they meet each other in the nonlinearness of the deep hero plane.

I think I've passed beyond dumb and into some uncharted territory off the edge of crazy town, but here it is anyways.

Edited October 8, 2021 by Richard S.
I really need to ask my self from five minutes ago what the "underwounderworld" is

[Akhôrahil]

9 hours ago, Richard S. said:

Argrath is a proper reincarnation of Arkat

As are the four others.

But unlike what they want you to believe, he’s The Destroyer, not The Liberator (the comic all but states this). Which explains a lot, actually.

Edited October 8, 2021 by Akhôrahil

[Sir_Godspeed]

9 hours ago, Richard S. said:

It's 3am here we fucking go. First some assumptions to base this on that I think are correct enough:

1. Time in the otherworld doesn't correspond to mortal time, especially as you go deeper in.

2. Most souls get reincarnated after a stint in the underworld.

3. Argrath is very much an Arkat-like figure.

Now the theory: Argrath is a proper reincarnation of Arkat, and his rule gets progressively more batshit as time goes on since Arkat's self starts to impose on stuff, kinda like a certain spoilery thing in the Wheel of Time books. However, unlike that, there's no reconciliation and Argrath ends up giving Arkat the unhealable wound when they meet each other in the nonlinearness of the deep hero plane.

I think I've passed beyond dumb and into some uncharted territory off the edge of crazy town, but here it is anyways.

"I wouldn't mind having you in my head if you weren't so obviously insane."

[scott-martin]

9 hours ago, Richard S. said:

underwounderworld

That's really, really good. Wounderhome.

[Akhôrahil]

Actually, re: Arkat returning (this is dumb theory time again):

The aspects are the ones we know of, but who get assigned which is culturally relativistic. So it’s not that one of them is the Liberator, but rather that they get tagged with different labels depending on who is at the receiving end. And then you need Identity Challenges to attempt to resolve it between them, and it’s a whole mess.

”Unhappy the land in need of Arkat.”

[Eff]

Let's get dumber. Each Arkat incarkatnation carries with him a local distortion of reality in relation to his title. Get too close to Arkat Liberator and you find yourself in costumes from old BBC Robin Hood productions, running through semi-abandoned British industrial centers, and everyone is talking about "Servalan" and the "Federation" (just whose federation it is seems to change). Spend long in the presence of Arkat the Deceiver, and all faces look like masks, ready for you to pull them off. Spend too long in the presence of Arkat Chaosbane and, horribly, you start to mutate into a Storm Bully...