[Glorantha] Urox and Windstop

[Greg Stafford]

> From: "Malk Williams" <malk at malkavius.com>
asks an interesting question

> Greg, you've made it quite explicit that the Lunars specifically
> targeted Ernalda, in order to "put her to sleep", and that her
> incapacitation was not as a direct result of Orlanth's "Death".  How did
> they do this?  Were the attacks on Ernalda (if attacks is the right
> word) part and parcel of the attacks on Orlanth, or do they comprise a
> wholly separate sequence of events?

I don’t know the details.
It’s so far removed from the story at hand that I’ve not bothered to 
figure such
details out.
What I do know is that it was a massive effort, taking years and hundreds of
thousands of hours of support and prayer to perform, far far beyond the 
ability
of any individual or even group of player characters to change.

> Is this the subject of an upcoming publication, or is the truth
> already out there?

It might be possible that the information will come out in some future novel
that I write, but I wouldn’t hold my breath if I were you.

> Anyone: The areas affected by Windstop have been said to include Prax,
> though the winds in Prax come not from Orlanth, but the Storm Bull.  Is
> there a right and wrong way to interpret this?

Yes, the wrong way is to assume it affected Storm Bull.

> I suppose that an
> Orlanthi would say that Urox is on some level either an aspect of, or at
> least a subject of Orlanth, and what affects Greater affects the Lesser
> also.

I doubt any well informed Orlanthi would say this (unless he was talking to a
Lunar
)

> I don't like that idea personally, I prefer to see the Bull as
> being more independent of Little Brother,

It is. The Urox storms exist outside of Orlanth and not even affected by the
annjual changes in Orlanth’s own movement, which afect nearly the rest of the
surface world. Storm Bull storms come from Storm Bull himself, who hovers over
the corpse of the Wastelands and throbs, sometimes larger or sometimes 
smaller,
and/or moves more or less north, south east or south west. If it goes 
southwest,
it blows the wastes into Prax.

> so should I think of it more
> as Storm Bull being a spirit who was called upon to aid Orlanth in the
> fight at Whitewall, and who therefore shares in the consequences of the
> defeat?  (Or indeed, none of the above...?)

The Urox winds were not affected.

The Urox Winds are not the ordinary air of Prax.
Ordinary air is the realm of Little Brother.
The Urox Winds (or Prax) are the storms, generally carying sand or 
other debris,
that come roaring into Prax from the Wastelands.