Vinga; Ralios trade; Hyena; Those Nasty Arrows

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From: David Dunham (ddunham@radiomail.net)
Date: Thu 01 Sep 1994 - 04:00:30 EEST


Lots of discussion on Vinga, I see.

I agree with Lewis (not Jamie) that Vinga is a Jill of All Trades and a master of none -- that was the gist of the myth I came up with.

>I speculate that Vinga's runes should be Mobility, Wind and Earth.

I seem to be outnumbered on this -- I use just Mobility and Air. But if Greg treats her as an Orlanth subcult, does the Earth rune give her anything? She shouldn't need to have the Earth rune to be able to deal with snakes, frex.

As for Bryan's thought that she is Orlanth's sister, could be. I prefer her being his daughter from a one-night stand, as always happens with mythic heroes, but that hero could be Umath, I suppose.

I treat Vinga as a subcult as described by Alex (though I don't forget that _I_ came up with the Wind Run spell :-). Except that I don't see Vinga-specific temples (they do have their own separate shrine building in the rambling Orlanth temple complex in Kilwin).

In my East Ralios, the canoe is one of the prime transports for trade (and one reason that trade is the province of Doskior, the River God, not Issaries, the Talking God). I'm not sure they have mules in the East Wilds (they probably do in Vesmonstran, and certainly in Safelster).

Pam asks
>Do hyaenas have get respect from humans due to their association with the
>Trickster?

Since when do humans respect Tricksters?

Martin wonders
>how have the Morokanth managed to survive on the
>plain(e)s of Prax? Even the Bison and High Llama riders have
>some members with missile weapons. Against Zebra, Sable, or
>Impala riders, the Morokanth would seem to be so much toast. The
>mounted foes can keep their distance and prevent the Morokanth
>from escaping, meanwhile pincushioning our tapir-like friends.

That's what I've been whining about in the past; I've never gotten a really good answer. Shields might work, but somehow seem very un-Morokanth (you've got to lug a shield with you everywhere you go in case you get raided?).

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