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

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From: "Costentin Cornomorus" <elemtilas@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 11:59 PM
Subject: 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."
Of course, the former is no longer true.  I don't know about the latter.
But there is something we should do.  We should come up with causes for all
the mess.

I'll admit it, while not inconsistent, IB history certainly needs a cause.
And indeed, I've tried to make one as best as possible for my bits.
However, there are far too many PODs.  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.

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