They are people pulled out of other pocket dimensions. I am a demon, in some of them, and it can get annoying to be summoned by some two-bit sorcerer. So, dimensional aliens. No, no sense of the Lovecraftian mythos, really, but we do have our suspicions about what/who the Gods really are. Yes, lots of local mythologies; see also the S&G I Sourcebook.Originally Posted by CRKrueger
Oh, no; lots and lots of smaller roads, all the way down to the equivalent of the cowpath past the farm. There are 'trunk roads' in fiefs, which are maintained by the fief-holder; pretty much all of them are dirt roads outside of the towns. The local roads are sort of looked after by the locals, with clans providing occasional labor to fix the potholes and washouts. Traffic is rural, as you might surmise, with carts, flocks, and beasts. Think rural Egypt or India, here.
You can cut across open country with no fences or such, but cutting across a field full of crops is a no-no. The locals get upset, and you won't get any place to stay overnight. Get 'em really angry, and you get a mob.
Hey Chirine, long time lurker on the board as well as Tekumel fan.
So care to share some of your speculations? I've always been interested in the backstory of the Tekumel Deities and what they are under the masks and misdirection. Also, I've been reading the thread with great interest and enjoyment. Hopefully it will never end!
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Chirine? A follow up on road traffic if you don't mind.
Do the people of the Five Empires move livestock around much? Like are there herds of Hmelu ( I think that's the name of the sheep-like beast, but I'm not sure) on the sakbe roads being driven by some herdsman into the city for sale and slaughter? Or do the rural clans slaughter and preserve meats and then bring them to the cities? Just wondering if some travellers might get stuck behind a herd of beasts while moving from one city to another. Might lead to some humorous misadventures.
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Remember the Sakbe roads have three levels. Herd animals would be confined to the lowest level, or perhaps would travel on the ground next to the Road.
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Ahh, that makes sense. Coolness.
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I didn't do a lot of speculating about the gods, myself; I tended, as a player, to leave that to the metaphysicians in the group. Once Phil had made his point in 'Ebon Bindings' that they are highly evolved t-planar beings, we kind of left it alone; for all practical purposes, it made no difference to us either as players or characters. I can look in my notes for you, though.
This highlights one of the issues that a lot of Tekumel fans had and still have with my original Thursday Night Group; we were so busy surviving in Phil's world that a lot of these issues and questions just never came up We 'played the world' as it was presented to us - as a golfer would say, 'we played it as it lay'...
This thread will go on for as long as people like you have questions...
I didn't do a lot of speculating about the gods, myself; I tended, as a player, to leave that to the metaphysicians in the group. Once Phil had made his point in 'Ebon Bindings' that they are highly evolved t-planar beings, we kind of left it alone; for all practical purposes, it made no difference to us either as players or characters. I can look in my notes for you, though.
This highlights one of the issues that a lot of Tekumel fans had and still have with my original Thursday Night Group; we were so busy surviving in Phil's world that a lot of these issues and questions just never came up We 'played the world' as it was presented to us - as a golfer would say, 'we played it as it lay'...
This thread will go on for as long as people like you have questions...
What Gronan said. Yes, to all of the above; the vast bulk of traffic on the Sakbe roads is on that lowest level, so it is indeed possible to have traffic jams. You pay extra to use the higher lane, and finding an 'on-ramp' has to wait for the next big tower. So all sorts of misadventures can occur.
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