Re: Nandan

From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Fri 15 Sep 2000 - 16:29:52 EEST


Sergi Diaz:
> I've been lurking your recent ernaldan posts and I've finally come to
> something I didn't know at all. I'm talking about Nandan. For what I've
> seen it's a way for men having children.

That's right, or specifically that's his 'greater magic', as Greg
(I think it was, or perhaps Robin?) put it, his lesser magic being
to 'allow' a man to lie with another man, as if he were a woman.
(No tittering in the back of the class, small boys!)

Socially, Nandans are males who adopt the female, Ernalda life-path,
to a high degree, just how high being a function in some way of their
magical commitment, I would think. Pretty much completely, if they've
actually 'mothered' a child, IMO.

> What can you tell me about it?
> Where did him appear? (books, fanzines, etc...)

Sadly, what I have to report is mainly 'word of mouth', at conventions
and the like. Doubtless he'll be appearing in some form or other
in the forthcoming Orlanthi stuff.

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