Sun Godessess: Thankyou, Peter, for enlightening me about who the heck=20
Senenya is - had never heard of her...Being anewbie, I am presumably=20
allowed this question: What is DBHE? Know that GRAY is Glorious Re-Ascent=
=20
Of Yelm, so it cannot be that under some fancy name... Could someone=20
enlighten me - privately, if you do not want it cluttering the list?
Uroxe (pl "uroxar"): In Frans G. Bengtsson's historical novel of the=20
Viking ages, "R=F6de Orm", translated as "The Long Ships", the aurochs=20
return to Sk=E5ne, the southernmost province of Sweden (but for most of=20
history considered a part of Denmark), at the same time as a king again=20
becomes ruler of the land, thereby fulfilling some ancient prophecy. What=
=20
the=20
heck has this to do with Glorantha? Well, if I remember things right,=20
"The Long Ships" was on the recommended background reading list of the=20
Vikings supplement, which makes me suspect Greg has read it... See this=20
as a note compared to those in Tales about the coast of Coromondol and=20
the cult of the Black Sun.....:-)
Esrolia: Some short notes on what happened when I played in "my" (Mike=20
Dickisons, Nick Brooke's, Pam Anderson's and everyone else's who inspired=
=20
me - thank you) Esrolia with female players:
*They liked the concept a lot - but so did the male players. The most=20
positive was a fellow who has read "history from the women's perspective"=
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(do you know what "kvinnohistoria" is in English, Jonas?) as a part of=20
his degree in history. "This is just like those (expletive deleted)=20
feminists say!" he roared. Hmmm...
*The female character who most used her authority as a Woman was played=20 by a male player. Hmmm...
*Interestingly enough, the male characters who refused to accept their=20
lot in life as "not-decision-makers" where the ones who got the most=20
crap, through no conscious planning of my own - being bitten by nasty=20
lizards, getting lost in the woods, and breaking taboos they should not=20
have broken. The other characters naturally saw this as a fitting example=
=20
of what happens when men run off on their own...
*Most interesting feature of the scenario - when the leaders of the=20
bloodline/family, two twin sisters, come back from different errands,=20
meet, and tell each others that they have both have a solution to their=20
problems. "I have made a deal with that spirit who has haunted us- we=20
must immediatelly restore what was found in that wreck to Machine Island,=
=20
from where the sea-captain stole it, or she will haunt us forever" "Oh=20
sh-t. I have just promised the guardian sprit of the island that it will=20
be guarded in her secret cave so that no damn mortals can get it again..."
They were able to sort that thing out, and did not suffer too heavily,=20
but they had me and all other players scared for a while.
Cheers,=20
Erik
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