From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Sun 10 Apr 1994 - 16:44:01 EEST
David Dunham in X-RQ-ID: 3567
> 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.
Isn't there a certain Urox in the pantheon, married to a certain daughter of Ernalda named Eiritha?
I know, Urox's real cattle is the Sky Bull (and the hero-path of Gorangi Vakshows how to tame them). Since Barntar is the Plowman, I'd expect him to have a similar path of putting the yoke onto a pair of bulls (oxen).
> 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.
The area of the Grazelands is approximately 1/5 of the Heortland area. Using the population numbers from the RQ3 Gamemasters' Book Heortland is as densely settled as an agricultural feudal country can be, with the closest distance between villages an average of 5 km. The culture of the Riders' upper class forbids this dense farming concentration, so the entire population will be considerably lower than 100,000 (1/5 of Heortland).
I always understood this figure to include all humans of the country.
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-- Joerg Baumgartner joe@sartar.toppoint.de
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