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

From:Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 23:23
--- 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. ===== - Nos côsez yen fin xristianós et trancouil - Côsez-el a Ddon! -- Ill Bethisad -- <http://www.geocities.com/elemtilas/ill_bethisad> Come visit The World! -- <http://www.geocities.com/hawessos/> .