From: David Dunham (ddunham@radiomail.net)
Date: Sun 01 May 1994 - 10:11:43 EEST
Nick Brook worried
>that real-world polygamy crops up only in hot countries, but this
>has always been a problem with Gloranthan climate (hairy Nordic barbarians
>in the south, with Mediterranean/Middle Eastern empires to the north), so
>I'm just going with the flow and ignoring the resulting "implausability".
>Besides, the summers were hotter before the Moon... and you've got to have
>something to do in the long, cold winters...
While it was rare, the Celts sometimes took multiple wives. "The first wife is completely free from liability for anything she may do during the thirst three nights [after the concubine is introduced into the house], short of killing." [D. Binchy, quoted in Simon James _The World of the Celts_]
Paul Reilly asserted
>There are a lot of Orlanthi who flirt with Chaos, one
>way or another - look at Sartar and Argrath for example.
Can you expound on this? Sartar allied with the chaos-tainted Telmori, but that always seemed more political than mythical. And what did Argrath do?
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