[Glorantha] Re: Glorantha Digest, Vol 12, Issue 513

[Roderick Robertson]

>> the "Creation Sequence" is  Dark -> Water -> Earth -> Sky -> Air. Only 
>> the
>> last three have "identity" (and thus can rebel, marry, love or hate), as
>> the Green (Earth) Age is when the formless became seperated.
>
> Huh. So "The Great Darkness" doesn't count as Dark.

Correct. The Great Darkness is Chaos, not Darkness. Except that Chaos isn't 
an Element (except when it is.) It's a phase between the "Then" of GodTime 
and "Now". It's when everything went to hell (literally) and lost identity 
for a while, so that not even "Alive" or "Dead" had real meaning. Not until 
the Dawn. (Of course, this is all from the Theyalan viewpoint, and is not 
Pan-Gloranthan - the various cultures all have their own names for the 
period we refer to as "the Great Darkness", and their own myths of what 
happened then).

We know that it's the time that the Otherworlds collided (or split apart), 
and "modern" Glorantha was born.

RR
He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad
R. Sabatini, Scaramouche