Re: [WorldofGlorantha] Re: A quick thought on Scorpion Men

AND the Scorpion-Man Queen, Bane (obviously female), of "The Widow´s Tale" the gloranthan novel by Penelope Love.

• Original Message ----- From: "valkoharja" <rintasaa_at_WFZV5sxDJasPfd4VWt0uiy4k9MwkCuTY0WqtrN2FKq7M4-biS4nDGz8xloinCJRV5It.yahoo.invalid> To: <WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 11:41 PM Subject: [WorldofGlorantha] Re: A quick thought on Scorpion Men
  • In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, "Ian" <ilikemonkeys.geo@...> wrote:
    >
    > --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, "valkoharja" <rintasaa@>
    > wrote:
    > > Heck, I may end up running with this. Who's to say that the males one
    > > sees running around aren't sexless drones anyway, and the way to
    > > become a breeder is to become the queen. Seems creepier and more
    > alien
    > > to me this way.
    > >
    >
    > Well, sure. Who's to say the Queen's human part has to look female?
    > Maybe they're scorpion-men because they *are* all men!
    

Indeed. That's one of the things I've though about. (Then again Glorantha is all about mythology, and Bagog is always recognized as a goddess... well... a monster of the female persuasion anyway.)

The only female scorpion man in published Glorantha (that I know of) is Rana the Scorpion Queen in Lords of Chaos, and she was a human woman before being devoured and given her new form. Rana looks like a perfectly nice looking human woman (from the waist up), but that's not to say that the average scorpion queen has to even be recognizable as female. I doubt they breastfeed their young or anything like that.

  -Adept             Received on Tue 19 Jun 2007 - 08:34:59 EEST