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

--- Joe <joe@...> wrote:

> > "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."
>
> Of course, the former is no longer true.
Which "former" are you refering to?

> I don't know about the latter.
> But there is something we should do.  We should
> come up with causes for all the mess.
This process is largely a part of comming up with
a new piece of IB history. The puzzle may have
its share of square pegs in round holes; but the
pegs are pretty well explained.

> However, there are far too many PODs.
Can't be helpped now.

> I think we need to unify them into
> one, single POD. For instance, in China, the
> POD was the lack of significant
> foreign involvement in the far east, and, for
> some reason, Japanese
> disarmament.  The latter certainly has
> problems.
>
> What we need is a unifying force, a single
> break, which caused all others.
Probably can't be done. The prime POD is the
survival of Romance languages and Roman civil
authority in Britain (which would become the
nation called "Kemr").

I doubt that a serious alt-history that takes
this premise would produce a world anywhere close
to IB.

But this is beside the point. Such rigor was
never introduced from the beginning, Andrew never
nipped a burgeoning IB in the bud, after he left,
John and I followed that same philosophy of
letting things happen as they will.

And anyway, the chief philosophy of w gegraphotai
gegraphotai prevents such a fundamental reworking
of History, cos It Is Written.

Padraic.


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