[HQ Ignorance] Re : Scene 120: Hum Chang Ways

[Loran]

Azhur was constantly puzzled by the Kralori civilization, imaging possible 
meanings under notions that he didn't even begin to understand, but trusting the 
common nature of all humankind, he turned on Guilliarme Rotterex and Kui Hui and 
asked:
- "If you wanted to express to the local population your humble support to all 
Humankind and Life in general, which bridge would you symbolically choose?"



Then he looked at the dragonewt who joined the fellowship for unknown reasons 
and was now about to reborn. He though then about his father's words, so long 
ago, when he was nothing more than a young knight full of certainties, before he 
passed theNidan Mountains and went to Arkat's homeland of Ralios, where the 
Henotheists effectively still had Power; and where Arkat had indeed returned and 
in many different form:"Everywhere you go there seems to be new and more 
evidence that the Hero Wars begin," had said his father, "and that mighty 
spirits and their followers are many. Would it not be an irresponsible danger 
represent the Supreme Deity with acknowledging these Powers?"


To Azhur, if the presence of God in his inner Essence was now only a helpless 
guess, Dragons were still an obvious reality of the Universe, a terrible and 
fearful reality in fact, especially if the possibility of the Dragons being the 
source of it was taken into account as the Kralori and the Dragonewt were 
pretending.

Azhur wondered "Are Dragons like the western God? Is the western God like 
Dragons? which one s it the part of the other? Westerners and Kralori are both 
right, are both powers part of a greater cosmic truth?"

His father was right when he was warning him against the complexity of the 
world. The catechism of his childhood wasn't presenting things like that.
If he decided to go to the Dragons, will he perishes or will he make a step 
forward to comprehension?

Unanswerable questions were buzzing in his head, when he recalled his credo: 
"Where lies my duty? I'm a knight made king but I'm on this world to serve every 
being in equality. My fears are nothing in front of my duty. I should serve 
honorable dragonewts and protect kralori peasants alike, especially I also serve 
my own countrymen by the way..."


This resolution taken, he spurred on Blackane, his lawful stallion to join the 
rest of the Fellowship and listen to their own views.
 

Loran



----- Message d'origine ----
De : Lev Lafayette <lev at mimesisrpg.com>
À : HeroQuest Glorantha <ignorance at mimesisrpg.com>
Envoyé le : Sam 22 janvier 2011, 13h 08min 53s
Objet : [HQ Ignorance] Scene 120: Hum Chang Ways

Scene 120: Hum Chang Ways

The paths from Laonon Tao to the great isle of Hum Chung are many and
varied. One could take a junk, of which many are available for a usual
fee. The journey is long, a hundred leagues at least, across the shallow
Suam Chow sea. But this sea is heavily populated. Numerous islands dot
this great bay, nearly all have their own villages (an exception is
Goropheng, the Ruined City, once the court of Kralorela, now mostly
underwater, flooded during the Gods Age). The other method is to take
one of the Great Bridges of Godunya, each of which teaches lessons of
the path. The bridges are massive, the widest in the world, and the
strongest in the world, or so the people of Kralorela say. Kalen knows
better, as do some of the Fellowship, for they have seen the Nidian
Bridge. But surely bridges this great must have been made by the Dwarves
- there is no other explanation. But where are they?

The bridges are wide enough to be considered a major street in their own
right. Each side has houses jammed together and every seven leagues or
so the bridges have their own marketplace. But which one to take?

The Bridge of the One Way?
The Bridge of Heaven and Hell?
The Bridge of the Rainbow Way?
The Bridge of Light and No Light?
The Bridge of Liver and Bile and Honey?
The Bridge of Exarchs and other Immortals?
The Bridge of Beautiful Music, Transformational Sex, and Jade Thoughts?

And as you approach your return to the Egg, Seeker, what lessons have
you learned from this incarnation that you will take to the next, Tailed
Priest, Noble stage?

Have you been brave or cowardly? Energetic or lazy? Loyal or
independent? Merciful or cruel? Temperate or indulgent? Are you sure?
For when this choices are made there is no turning back.

And great Azhure, King of Seshnela, are you ready to make this journey?
Your life has been filled with fear of dragons, and now you are
travelling with neotenic dragon to a city where it is known that a True
Dragon, the August Dragon, lives. 


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