<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><html><br></html><html><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">:</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Finding the labyrinthine politics incomprehensible,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Karala was </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">nevertheless happy to see her friend Anzhurs '</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">happiness with his new </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">bride. The wedding ceremony, with its pomp and</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">civilised finery </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">impressed Karala mightily despite herself.</div></blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div></blockquote>It is just rustic enough to keep Karala happy :-)On 21 Apr 2008, at 13:27, Lev Lafayette wrote:</html><html><br></html><html>Nah, while the ceremony might be simple and rustic by Seshnelan standards, the over-blown lavishness of it blows primative Reindeer-girl Karala away! - she has never seen such magnificent display... :)</html><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I suspect initial impressions would be positive, as</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">God Learners are very clever at understanding the</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">various myths of Glorantha. However when it becomes</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">clear that their intent is to plunder these myths for</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">their magical power, they would be less than</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">supportive.</font></p> </blockquote></div><br><div>As a Spirit-Talker of her people, Karala Walks-With-The-Great-White-Wolf had learned the tales of these "God-learners" with their honeyed words hiding their greed to steal and rape the sacred stories. The Luatha had said that he had been punished for his crimes, but did not seem so sure that he had mended his outlook. </div><div><br></div><div>Hanging back from the group greeting the newcomer, Karala resolved to keep a close and suspicious eye on this soul-less sorcerer.</div><div><br></div><div>-:)</div><div><br></div><div>Dougie.</div></body></html>