[HQ Ignorance] Scene 53: The Longest Night, The Battle of Seguarane Forest

[Lev Lafayette]

--- Erica Hoehn <caseopaya at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Kalen reaches for the copper wire which will set off
> the
> explosives - "I hope our colleagues are prepared!" 
> - and
> sets of the explosives to create the damn.

Ahh, that damned dam! ;-)

> Kalen watches in fascination as the trees collapse
> under
> the water.  He dreams about building pathways and
> train
> lines to import more manufactured good to the area. 
> "Thank
> the gods that there are fewer trees now"


Nota bene: Erica raises an interesting and little
known component of Dwarf theology; that there are
actually other gods apart from Mostal, the Maker. By
appealing to all the Dwarf gods Kalen is actually
raising the names of *all* the metals and minerals.
That's quite an oath!

"Mostal is the major dwarf god in Glorantha." i.e.,
not exclusively the only one.
http://www.glorantha.com/library/elder/dwarfs-mythos.html

"One may wonder, if the Ancient Metals are all Mostali
gods, why they are claimed by other pantheons, notably
the elements."

http://glorantha.temppeli.org/digest/gd4/1996.12/0261.html

Also see pp71-74 of Robin Laws' Glorantha: The Second
Age, which is available on books.google.com


I'll put together material for the next scene tonight;
the explosion of the dam and the Aldryami defense...


> 
> 
> > The lands to the west were hilly and the Deu River
> > snaked along them before being held up at the dam
> > produced by Kalen and Icthya where the Nidan and
> Deu
> > River met. To the south and east they were
> flatter,
> > once providing the great fields which field the
> > Kingdom of Seshnela. Seguarane itself stood atop a
> > plateau whose reach extended all the way north and
> > east to the swamplands of Sodal.
> 
> > Icthya and Kalen: Set to the west of Seguarane,
> they
> > have a holding position on their dammed high
> ground
> > overlooking the lowlands south of Seguarane. With
> them
> > are 1500 Aldryami, a variety of spearmen, archers
> and
> > shaman. Attack 3, Defense 3, Movement 3, Morale 3.
> > 
> 
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