[Glorantha] Salinarg and the Household of Death

From: David Weihe <blerg2>
Date: Sat Sep 30 05:00:17 2006

Martin Dick <martin.dick_at_rmit.edu.au> writes
> then to me, the decision to form the Household of Death
> is a major betrayal of Sartar's principles and ideals
> and therefore this would have greatly weakened the
> magical bonds holding the principality together.

Actually, I think that the HoD was the equivalent of Extraordinary Support in a HeroQuest, and it was their defeat and destruction that weakened the bonds. If they had somehow managed victory (suppose, frex, the Empire withdrew support from Tarsh, leaving it to face the South by itself, and the Sartarite general stopped before invading the other Imperial provinces, and maybe even convinced them that reducing Tarsh to a small buffer was in their interests, as well) it might have strengthened the bonds, albeit by turning from Sartar's methods to other ones, entirely. Assuming that such a transformation wasn't what he might have found necessary, of course.

> Now whether Salinarg was involved in the decision (a while
> since I've read the relevant passages in King of Sartar) or
> not and whether some Sartarites were inspired or not, the
> Household of Death was a solution based on war to the Lunar
> problem, while the original Sartar was about solutions based
> on peace or at least transformation, a very different thing.

Agreed, Sartar would have tried something trickier. The problem was that Sartar's heirs were not raised as Heortlendish Larnstes, but went native, as semi-rural Heortlings like the rest of the country. It might have been interesting what a better Temertain could have done, especially if the Empire had been too distracted to interfere for some years. Instead, the Empire pulled off a cunning Chaos attack in the palace, and had their "minder" ready to control him, afterwards.

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