[Glorantha] Re: Ethnic types in the Empire (and elsewhere)

> From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20@yahoo.co.uk>
>
> The local population being Praxians, yes. And yes,
> absolutely. No interbreeding with riff-raff. There has
> *never* been a time when the Count of Sun County was a
> nomad, the place has never been conquered, the
> religion there has stayed the same for the last couple
> of thousand years, and the idea that the present Count
> has to dye his hair blonde due to nomads in his
> blood-line is slander. By the way, there's this rather
> nice bridge for sale you might be interested in...?

That's what I thought. :) No one ever completely separates from the riff raff. :)

Raw slander. Absolutely. Baseless and unfounded. :)

> It makes sense to me, but extrapolating "all Dara
> Happans" from one isolated and primitive bunch in the
> back end of beyond may be a mistake. That's like
> saying all Sartarites have webbed feet just because
> the Lismelder do. (And even that isn't true, of
> course. It's only the Marshedge clan.)

A fair point. You could argue it either way. I do like the Dara Happans as vaguely Babylonian, but there is something nice with having a major Solar culture as Blond and blue-eyed, even.

Mind you, the Grazers are heavily solar, and I believe they don't look like that.

I'm tempted to make the Solar cultures primarily darker skinned, "kissed by the sun".

> I like the contrast betwen "foppish" Esrolian Humakti
> and the more down-to-earth Heortling variety. Putting
> them in black silk and lace just picks up the right
> cliches for me. OK, so I have no taste. Guilty as
> charged.

I do think the Esrolian Humakt that has the foppish side has an emphasis on the sword and honor sides of Humakt, as opposed to the Death side.

> Makla Mann. ST p104. The name means "unfailing
> bondsman", apparently, though we're not told in what
> language.

That's it. If anyone ever reads the Kushiel series by Jacqueline Carrey (I think), the Casseline Brotherhood is VERY Makla Mann. I would certainly use it as a model.

SIMON:
> Greg has said several times that the Orlanthi are a brown skinned people,
> not pale like the vikings. As for the Pelaskans, they are an olive/brown
> skinned people, although most of the skin is covered in mud and tattoos. The
> dwellers of Seapolis have some practices and traditions that resemble Greek and
> Egyptian culture, however the islanders are a much wilder group.

Was there any particular reason for that decision about the Orlanthi? And also, are we talking the Orlanthi from Dragon Pass specifically? Because it seems to me that there are a huge number of people who worship Orlanth who are scattered over a fairly large area.

LC Received on Tue 03 Oct 2006 - 17:40:20 EEST