What is darkness?
The lack of light. That doesnt help a great deal. The dictionary doesnt help a great deal, not even Noah Websters 1846 edition. We learn such things there as light is the precondition of vision. Well… thank you very much! Light is the agent or the matter that makes objects perceptible to the sense of seeing. It is itself invisible but composed of rays differently colored in the spectrum with astonishing velocity. We all have learned that light travels186,000 miles per second. Thats over 11 million miles a minute. And I am way out of my element. The dictionary further says that it is often used to mean knowledge, understanding or the illumination of the mind. We use it that way. We speak of a lamp of learning, a lamp of knowledge. I never saw a lamp of ignorance. A lamp produces light. Light dispels ignorance, dispels darkness. It is a mystery. It is like wind we see its effects, but we do not really see it. The sun is its principal source the “S U N”, Mr. Webster says. He also made t
” Type: Background: General Genre: Fantasy Setting: Glorantha System: Generic 1 Authors: Andrew Joelson, David Dunham, Jamie Revell, Jose Ramos, Michael O’Brien, Nick Effingham, Nils Weinander, Shannon Appel Summary: A discussion of darkness from several points of view. This article is contained in The Book of Drastic Resolutions #3.
