[Glorantha] Mating on the Heroplane (from "Helering Bodies")

From: tim_at_timellis.demon.co.uk <(tim_at_timellis.demon.co.uk)>
Date: Wed Jan 11 14:00:17 2006

John Machin & Donald Oddy have been discussing mating as part of a Heroquest ritual to bring back a child...

JM>Could you mate on the Heroplane, perhaps by travelling back to simpler
JM>- and more mutable - mythic times,  and then use yourself as the store
JM>for the "heroquest reward"; i.e. the child?

DO> Interesting idea. I think the problem would be bringing something
DO> material (the child's physical body) back from the Heroplane. I
DO> rather think you'd end up with a disembodied soul. If the baby

DO> hadn't been born before the end of the HQ it probably wouldn't DO> survive in a male body and how does it get born?

Isn't this (not the male host part) pretty much the method Cragspider uses to attempt to break the trollkin curse that gives rise to the Great Trolls?

Great Trolls, IIRC are always male, I don't recall if they are also sterile, or if they can father children (and if so whether they always father more Great Trolls or are subject to the Trollkin Curse themselves...). If you want a challenge, how about a Great Troll who wants to use this ritual to become a "mother"...

Since this thread started out talking about Helerings and swapping sexes, maybe this is the solution for the putative male questor, use your Helering magic to ensure you exit the quest as a female, and thus capable of carrying the child to term. (then again if it is a male questor who is becoming impregnated, who or what is the father? The only thing I know of capable of impregnating males is a Broo, and I'm not sure you'd consider that as much of a "reward"   Received on Wed 11 Jan 2006 - 13:10:51 EET