From: Michael Cule (mikec@room3b.demon.co.uk)
Date: Mon 02 Jun 1997 - 02:23:14 EEST
Jane Williams wants to know about Ducks, their provenance and religious
affiliation.
All this is very much IMG.
In my Glorantha the Durulz (as opposed to the Keets who are a whole different
package) are a small persecuted people, without a homeland of their own but
with immense pride in who they are. (Yes, that's right: they are the Gloranthan
equivalent of the Diaspora Jews. And they all have Jewish mothers....)
Their central trait is the fact that they don't know why they were cast down
The Keets in contrast know what she did and why she did it and have a quiet
from the skies and why their legendary home (Ganderland) is now denied to them.
This makes them irritable and very touchy. They have lost contact (for some
primordial God-Time reason) with their defining ancestral cult. Which in my
Glorantha is a female deity called variously Mother Duck or Mother Keet. They
still have Ancestor Worship but because their Mother made a sacrifice at the
Dawning, becoming one with the Net of Dreams they no longer have their own
deity and have to adapt to the cults around them.
pride and self confidence in knowing that their losses were part of the saving
of the cosmos.
They have been driven out of most places they have settled but Duck Point is
the longest established centre for them. At some time in the past they
were driven from there and established colonies in the coastal cities of
the Holy Country, especially Refuge and Nochet, where they are big in the
fishing and river trades.
They follow mostly the Orlanthi cults (they can regain some of their flight
powers by use of Storm Magics), Ancestor Worship and, as Jane points out, the
River gods on whom they depend for much of their livelihood and sustainance.
(Most of the above is from my games, but doesn't AFAIK, contradict any offical
material.)
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