From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Wed 31 Aug 1994 - 07:18:34 EEST
Alison Place:
> In our game, there is a great spring ceremony on Aldrya's Day, when
> everyone plows their heart out from dawn to dusk, and then revels at
> night.
I'd have thought Voria was the more natural person to "blame" for this one, though this association has the mild drawback that the some Voria initiates (not to say priestesses) might get rendered Permanently Inactive in the process. <nudgenudge, winkwink> Still, them's the breaks.
> 5. Vinga = Orlanth Adventurous for women.
> I don't like this one at all, for several reasons. Since Orlanth
> is open to women, as well as men, why stick women in a special cult,
> unless there is something very distinctive about it, such as emphasising
> a dual heritage from both Ernalda and Orlanth?
Greg's attutude seem to be that all women Orlanthi are Vingans, but it's a pretty notional distinction. At least magic-wise, and for all "practical" distinctions.
I think I'd made Vinga a "sub"cult in a more traditional sense: women just join Orlanth, though they may (also) call themselves Vingans. At many temples, they only get "normal" Orlanth Rune Magic. At temples where there's a number of Vingans, there'll be a Vinga shrine, and if large enough, it'll offer a (the?) special Vinga rune magic. (Someone suggested one a while back, Wind Run was it?) Larger, all-Vingan temples may exist, but I suspect they'd be fairly similar to the above, with one or two different rune spells from the O. Adventurous norm.
> By the way, RQ-Con Compendium plus many pages of dailies can be a
> dangerous thing to read late at night. [...]
> Unfortunately, the alarm then woke me.
Saved By The Bell, it sounds like...
Alex.
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