I thought I replied to this yesterday, but it seems to
have vanished.
> I know of no Gloranthan reference to Kallyr being a
> duck.
I rather suspected it was just a few cases like the one John reported, of a natural mistake being made due to insufficient data supplied. It's still nice to know where and when it happened.
> All the material referring to Starbrow's rebellion
> was published first in an APA-zine,
What's an APA-zine?
> later reprinted in Wyrm's Footnotes (#13, IIRC) and
> Footprint.
I've got that, thanks. Will re-re-read. I seem to remmeber there's a duck in the High Council, he's probably the NPC duck I need for this. Will have to check if he gets mentioned elsewhere.
> There are two ways to go about this.
Plus mine :)
> 1. Multiple Kallyrs. If the Argraths can do it, why
> not the Starbrows?
Sounds like an interesting idea, and one I might pick up on at a later date.
> 2. A contemporary of Zin (the Fourth Age collector)
> making the same
> conclusion as apparently both John Hughes and
> Stephen Martin when hardly
> any information beyond RuneQuest rules were about.
Well, yes, but that's almost too easy! What we have, it seems, is some individuals in Glorantha in about 1613-14 genuinely believing that Starbrow was a duck.: but, it seems, from a distance. The obvious answer is that those individuals were mistaken. I'd like to do something a little more interesting, and have them be in some way correct.
> Unless you make Kallyr a duck honoris causa.
My Latin is a bit rusty, I'm afraid. What do you mean by that phrase?
> But then she'd also be a
> Telmori adoptee for her putting up a fight against
> Jomes Wulf...
I'm fairly sure her support from the Telmori is because they're sworn to the Sartar royal house. And their support of her over various other competeing candidates might be because she did actually try to help them: I'm sure she was in the fight against Jomes Wulf, if only because it's yet another time when the Sartarites fought the Lunars and lost :)
What I'm coming up with is, rather to my surprise, turning out to be a serious story rather than a funny one. Tragic, almost, and I don't mean Twagic. At present I'm pretty sure I know what happened, why it happened, and a fair bit of the dialogue where it gets discussed and people Learn Stuff. What it isn't, at the moment, is an *interesting* story, just terribly worthy stodge about Heroes being Heroic. I need to add window-dressing, some points where it all goes wrong, and maybe some more minor characters if only for comic relief.
I'll write up what I've got and get John to check it out for duck-compatibilty. Anyone else into serious duck mythology and culture who feels I should check it with them? Stu?
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