[Glorantha] Household of Death

> It's hard to imagine, the original Sartar swearing deadly oaths to
> Humakt and then charging with all his forces into the Lunar Empire. How
> he would have handled them I'm not sure, but it would have been a much
> more original solution than trying to come up with a deadlier weapon
> like Salinarg and his children did.
>
> cheers
>
> Martin

I don't think you have this right Martin. Salinarg didn't set out to create the Household of Death. The creation of the Household is a brave and spontanious gesture of Salinarg's children, to which Humakt himself responded with a miracle. I'm sure the prince wouldn't have let his children do such a thing if it had been his choise.

I'm sure that a large part of Sartar was inspired by the "children's crusade". The Household of Death is a heroic gesture, very appropriate for the Heortling culture. It also has an undercurrent of desperation and defiance onto death. (In my understanding) a noble child from every tribe of Sartar stepped forth and gave themselves to Humakt, inspired by the sacrifice of the children of Salinarg.

In my Glorantha, Salinarg adopted all the children, thus gaining back those that had been his own children, and 24 others as well. This made the Household an offiscial part of the House of Sartar, and tied the fortunes of the kingdom to these deciples of Humakt.

>From that moment on, everybody in Sartar must have known they faced a
existential chrisis. The actual invasion was two years coming, and in that time many clans and tribes tried to find their own ways out, and sunk into deep depression.

The heortlings don't deal very well with an ill wyrd. Remember that their only mythical solution to kinstrife is mourning and suffering. They don't try to fix it. As far as they know, there is no way to fix kinstrife. At best, one can survive it. Something of the same mindset may have worked against the Sartarites in the war of 1602.

        -Adept Received on Thu 28 Sep 2006 - 12:31:43 EEST