[hw-rules] Re: Gregged again! Cragspider this time....

Michael Cule wrote:
>
> On the Hero Wars mailing list (I'm copying this to the Glorantha Digest)
> W. Quadros <wquadros_at_0HUE33d9c5SfGjnEzlGegbMJJyRU28FjBPD7aWuEm4Bp8_3zgA5CioDIgQh2hhIg9N0vVcNXonbWeJEIZZr7.yahoo.invalid> writes
> >michael cule <mike-_at_IppiTLg1UKfx7nRPTe-Ir6c4V_zI4LXh7EReBwXk0n8rBCk8S-8A6FsMVBQdjQJBB8YjjSzU0-iR0UXmtC8k_9A.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
> >> >Cragspider is a demi-god. She is not a hero.
> >>
> >> She is of mortal origin. (I'm willing to be corrected but I'm sure
> >that
> >> she started out as a dark troll.) By the definitions I used in my
> >> original post, that makes her a Hero.
> >
> >From what I have read she started as a Great Darkness Spirit. She was
> >worshipped by several troll tribes. One of her prefered forms was the
> >spider and many of the tribes began to worship her as the spider. Thus
> >she got stuck in that form because of the worship she was receiving.
> >
> >http://www.glorantha.com/library/eurmal/personalities-cragspider.html
>
> He's done it to me again...
>
> From UZ LORE: Book two of Trollpak.
>
> p20 THE SECOND AGE:
>
> The trolls lost strength after the Gbaji wars which could not be
> replaced except through the greatest efforts. In the whole of the five
> centuries only one troll came close to making that effort, though
> hundreds of them heroquested to try for it. That one was Cragspider, a
> dark troll who started in the spider cult and worked her way to deity.
>
> Well, bugger it! In my Glorantha she's a Hero. It's more glorious that
> way.
>
> --
> Michael Cule
>

Or, as faras the TROLLS know, she's a very, very, VERY old Mistress Race heroquester.

She quite a keeper of secrets, as I recall. And perhaps there are layers and layers of them. In Dragon Pass, she's referred to as a nymph who seduced Larnste...

Jeff             Received on Thu 02 Mar 2000 - 12:39:41 EET