[Glorantha] Heroquest/Spiritquest/Essence Plane

[Greg Stafford]

>   From: "Bryan" bethexton at yahoo.com
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> Subject: Re: Heroquest/Spiritquest/Essence Plane

>> I have been
>> studying maythology for maybe 50 years, and sometimes feel I have
> insights tht
>> others have failed to see. So if I correct these, it is more
> likely that I am
>> trying to teach rather than scold.
>>
>
> Maybe this is part of our challenge...certainly at times I feel like
> a non-rider asking "how do you ride a bicycle?" of someone who has
> done it all their life.  I think sometimes the hardest questions for
> us to grasp your answers on are the most basic.

So please, keep asking.

> 1. Do myths vary in flavor between predominant magic systems.  If
> you were to tell the myth underlying quests to deal with some
> typical crisis--say drought--from three cultures, one predominantly
> theistic, one predominantly animist, and one predominantly
> sorcerous, would you expect that a player would be able to tell
> which one came from which culture? (assuming some basic knowledge of
> Glorantha, but without recognition of the name in the myths).

No. Not if they did not also have the magic that was being sought, which
is sort of a giveaway.

> 2. Do Myths (and hence quests) vary more between magic systems, or
> between cultures?  That is, will Rokari myths seem any stranger to
> an Esrolian than Dara Happan myths do?

Cultures.

>   From: Trotsky <TTrotsky at blueyonder.co.uk>
replies well to
> Subject: Re: Essence Quest

excedpt in one case:
> Really, they're much the same as the theistic or animist sort, but in an
> Essential landscape, rather than a Divine one.

They occur in the Gods War, the Mixed World, like most HeroQuests.

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