Cattle deities; Chariots of Wind; Ralios; Grazelands

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From: David Dunham (ddunham@radiomail.net)
Date: Sat 09 Apr 1994 - 09:03:39 EEST


It's odd, but with all the deities listed in King of Sartar, I don't see one relating to cattle. Cattle are of obvious importance to the Orlanthi (you need to own 8 oxen to be of reasonable status). There's an implication [247] that herders are rivals for Voria, and that Voria would be the cattle goddess, but I doubt this. Derik Pol-Joni had a magic bull lead his cattle.

Mastakos is Orlanth's charioteer. Has anyone run across references to actual people (not gods) riding chariots? I'd love to put them in Ralios, and make at least one of my players happy.

In the Genertela Book, p. 65, the Otkorion are listed both as part of Safelster and the Orlanthi. Are they that numerous? Is the Orlanthi entry really the missing Surkorion?

I'm leaning towards placing Surkorion to the southeast of Lankst and east of Otkorion, bounded by the mountains on the east. (Another possibility would be between Lankst and Lalia.)

Another population question concerns the Grazelands. There are 40000 people listed. Greg's said that over half the population are vendref, but it's not clear from his letters whether there are 40000 True Horse people and as many vendref, or if their combined population is 40000.

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