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

--- Costentin Cornomorus skrzypszy:

> I will open the Secret Archive. From Andrew, two
> years ago to the day:
>
> [...]
> 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'm not sure if I agree, but at least I can understand that. I suppose it
is the same kind of feeling a composer gets when his work is being
performed by others. You focus at different points and details, and all the
time you think: hey, thát's not what I meant... what are they doing?... why
do the sopranos have trouble with that note, it's not thát difficult... etc.
While objectively speaking the performance is wonderful!

> I wish someone would explain to me HOW militant
> Buddhists ended up in control of Tsarist Russia
This I agree(d) with. I followed IB long before I joined it, and this I
considered one of the weakest parts: a Buddhist Russia just seemed to
ridiculous to believe! That was the reason why I invented the SNOR as a
more reasonable alternative, and that was also how I ended up in IB.

> or WHY anyone would want to repeat the attack
> on the Twin Towers *there*, considering the range
> of concultures now included into Ill Bethisad.
Because IB history may not be the same as *here*, but at least marches
parallel to it? Well, perhaps the subject was a bit too sensitive to
include it...

> 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."
Yes, I can understand that, having the composer experience I mentioned
above.

>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...
But *internally* Kemr hasn't changed much, has it? In other words, the fact
that other parts of the world have been elaborated should by no means have
the effect that working on Kemr cannot be the way it was before...

Jan

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