Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad (was Re: elves and jinn (...))

--- Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
wrote:

> > in my opinion, Ill Bethisad has moved into
> > a direction I don't prefer.
>
> I heard that more often. May I ask what that
> direction was? I joined IB over a year ago,
> and I know little about the early history.
I will open the Secret Archive. From Andrew, two
years ago to the day:

"If I gave everyone freedom to work and rework
Ill Bethisad it is because I was dismayed and
reluctant to restrain any of it at an early
stage. (Thank god I never became a teacher!:)  So
Kemr may be on the verge of the 21st century,
while Kernow [Dûnein] seems to be back in the
1960s, pre-Vatican II.  All around were cultures
entrenched in ancient rights and prejudices.  Too
mysterious for me to understand.

I wish someone would explain to me HOW militant
Buddhists ended up in control of Tsarist Russia
or WHY anyone would want to repeat the attack
on the Twin Towers *there*, considering the range
of concultures now included into Ill Bethisad.
But these are symptoms and not causes.
Instead of designing Ill Bethisad as an
alternative history it is becoming a shared world
for constructed cultures.  As I have allowed that
to happen I am no longer the ultimate authority
over it."

Some of these thoughts I agree with; some of
these events I lament. While I watch the goings
on in Scandinavia, Europe and America with
interest; a part of me still longs for the Old
Days, when IB meant Kemr and nothing else. When
things discovered about the world were discovered
to enrich Kemr. When even happy, backward Dûnein
was no more than a foil for the preppy, trendy
and wealthy bastards up in the provinces...

Padraic.


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