From: TTrotsky@aol.com
Date: Wed 22 Nov 2000 - 23:07:31 EET
Keith:
<< <<don't know where you get the idea that Heortling society is more likely
to create heroic individuals than Dara Happa. My view of Glorantha has always
been that each culture had its own heroes, they are different because of
cultural differences but they are still heroes. Such as the heroic Lunar tax
collector who learns all the Orlanthi tax dodges. >>
I guess I get the idea from an article in Enclosure? or Questlines?
somewhere
like that. My view of heroism would not include tax collectors.>>
That seems to me to be an overly narrow interpretation of 'heroism', at
<< If you can name a heroic tax collector in heroic fiction or myth than you
least as the term is used in HW/Glorantha. Anyone with potent magical powers
and who embodies a part of their culture can be called a hero, IMO. I don't
suppose there are many tax collecting heroes (compared with, say, warrior
heroes), but equally, I'm sure there must be some.
What sort of non-combatant *would* you consider to be heroic in
Glorantha?
are better
read than I am. >>
St Matthew.
OK, so he wasn't heroic at *being* a tax collector, but then the farmer
types you mentioned from Icelandic sagas and Westerns aren't remembered for
their heroic farming, but for what they did once they stopped farming
(generally against their wishes).
Forward the glorious Red Army!
Trotsky
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