[Glorantha] Mirin's Cross

[Peter Metcalfe]

Antonio ?lvarez del Cuvillo:

>My tarshite PC's are going to Mirin's Cross. I only have the short
>description in ILH-1. Have you got any info or ideas about this city? I
>don't mind if the information is canonical or not.

Since the Dawn there's always been some sort of settlement
at Mirin's Cross as a channel for commerce and ideas between
Peloria and Dragon Pass.  The World Council of Friends, the
Dara Happan Empire, the Empire of Light and the EWF have
all left traces of their passing in Mirin's Cross.

All these contacts are merely revivals of the mythical city of
Elempur which exists on a prehistoric map of Dara Happa
marked with the rune of Lokarnos.  And as Lokarnos was
the inventor of the Golden Wheel, Elempur was the City of
the Gold Wheel Dancers.

I'm thinking that when Elempur was first razed, its survivors
worked a great magic to preserve the memories of what had
been lost.    Perhaps Mirin's Cross refers to the Gold Wheel
Dancer who transformed himself into a cross in that dismal
time.

The aftereffects of Mirin's change is this.  Everything that has
ever marched through the city can still be found in some
corner - Gold Wheel Dancers, Ram People, Mythical era
Dara Happans, Chaos Monsters, Nysaloran Illuminates,
Golden Dragon Missionaries, Arkat's Dark Warriors and so
on - all can be found in Mirin's Cross.  For the people of
history, they reside in insular neighbourhoods and preserve
their memories out of the sight of foreigners.  For the people
of mythic times, their residences lie in the heroplanes of
Mirin's Cross with a large gold cross visible on the horizon.

There is another tradition that Sagittus the bow god was
found at Elempur but I have my suspicions for thinking
that is a contamination from another myth which really
concerns another place.

--Peter Metcalfe