Well met! ... Yes, it would be a perpetual equinox. ... Yes, they would, although geography could limit that. It would not be the same sort of direct...
Grimmund
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Jan 1, 2008 5:40 pm
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... The image I have of Glorantha on this subject doesn't have much to do with real world physics. The sky dome is a physical place where the sun and other...
... Yeah, that's starting to become apparent. :) Of course, the funny bit is, I can accept a flat, lozenge shaped world, but I'm having trouble with the sun...
Grimmund
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Jan 2, 2008 3:47 pm
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... still ... poles, ... not ... perpetual ... available ... It could go further than that. At one pole of our Earth's moon (which has a tilted axis) is a...
... As a general guideline, I run my games so that everyday things look just like they do on our earths past. Many things work differently, but the differences...
I am sad that the idea of the land of the midnight sun is gone. Perhaps it could be the objective of some Yelmite magical conspiracy to create a place where...
... Except that the Gloranthan sun is a lot nearer and a lot smaller than the Earth's. The Sky Dome is literally that. So given a normal dome shape the highest...
I got this for Christmas and have really enjoyed it, although I haven't taken it all in yet. Most of it is a really entertaining read, some is a bit Mongoosy...
YGWV ... Me too. ... Which is due, of course, to the fact that the sun is hotter (and brighter, and larger) in the summer and colder (and dimmer) in the...
YGWV ... ================= It need not be gone. In Your Glorantha the tilt could easily be radical enough to put the sun on the southern horizon. It would...
Well met! ... Mythic, but OK. It's a simple explanation. I don't know if it's necessary to cycle the solar power level; if the days are longer in summer and...
Grimmund
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Jan 3, 2008 4:58 pm
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YGWV ... winter. ... I forget if there is a longer day in the summer, though I would like it to be so (got that Alex?) ... Not my statement. YGWV. ... ...
... the winter. ... winter, ... I don't think they are exclusive, but rather complimentary, to get something similar to what we see on earth. Like you said,...
... As I understand it, the sun appears at the same angle, regardless of your 'latitude'. That angle is not necessarily directly overhead at noon, depending on...
... You're assuming that the edges of the sky dome (and the Gates of Dawn and Dusk) are not far outside the edges of the mortal world. I recall Sandy years ago...
... that... Well, I am sat here in the tropics (Minas Gerais, Brazil, so within the Tropic) and let me tell you it is definitely summer. Six months ago it...
... No doubt. :) but I suspect that's driven at least in part by elevation. I used to live on Oahu, Hawai'i, which is apparently further north than you are...
Grimmund
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Jan 3, 2008 6:46 pm
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Hi all, Did any physical objects survive the Great Darkness and pass into the Historical World, or were they all destroyed by the tumult of the Great Darkness...
YGWV ... A whole bunch of stuff survived. I'll happily leave it to others to list. :) -- Greg Stafford [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Hi guys, I will be spending a week in New York City and wanted to know if there was any good bookstore that I could visit. I mainly focus on Cthulhu, D&D and...
... The spring, summer, autumn and winter seasonal calender is a RW temperate zone invention because those are the distinctive weather patterns in that zone....
... Well nearly all the published maps show Pamaltela having no southern coast and Genertela no northern one. Discussions about the northern and southern edges...
Namaste: I'm not a resident of NYC, but the few times I've visited the store I've gone to is "The Compleat Strategist". I believe they have two locations in...
... Yes indeed. At those places one starts to move from the Inner world to the closer hero planes http://www.glorantha.com/products/samples/otherworld.html ......
... In Dorastor, we find Feldichi artifacts. About the Feldichi, Jeff Richard posted here (message #4641) that... "The Old Man was an ancient god that lay...
... Genertela. Grimmund ... A couple of years ago, Nick Brooke described the sky dome as (quoting from memory) "a perfect hemisphere 5 miles high and 10000...
... Things must have, because not all of the survivors were reduced to nakedness! More, we know that certain constructions survived, aren't the walls of Alkoth...
... Well, we are only talking about Sandy's Glorantha, which may differ from Greg's - although Greg's recent statement 'it extends much, much farther out at...
