> and so he should be the Hunter Deity of the ducks, who are much closer to
> Orlanthi than to trolls, certainly Sergio will agree to that.
I also agree that ducks are more close to Orlanthi than to trolls. The
important point is that being more close is not the same as being equal.
IMO ducks don't have to be like humans. They may depart from the standard
Orlanthi culture. My proposal is that one of the points where they depart
is the hunter worship.
> for ducks are not generally hunters IMO, they are fishers
Duck hunters represent a small part of duck society and its most noticeable
characteristic his that they worship a troll's god. Notice that this is
important to ducks. Even if they are much closer to Orlanthi than to trolls
that doesn't mean they don't have contact with trolls. I must repeat
myself: most of the time in Glorantha history ducks had to live in a Dragon
Pass where trolls were prevasive (remember that in the years 1100 / 1250
ducks 'were' the Orlanthi culture in DP). When they have to contact with
trolls, they don't and can't expect the support of human Orlanthis to help
them if things go wrong. Better to share something with trolls that will
offer ducks at least a neutral stance from the darkness folk. The cult of
Zong seems to me prefectly appropriate.
> But, as worshiped by those very few duck hunters (...), he (Odayla) would
provide spells for the
> type of prey they hunt. This _might_ include insects
Why would a god provide such odd and unnatural spells - unnatural in the
sense that they contradict is nature ad orientations, in the present case
storm and the creatures associated with storm - only to satisfy a very
small and unrepresentative set of worshipers? How would human Odayla
hunters react when confronted with such a situation? IMO it doesn't make
sense. If we follow your line, why wouldn't Odayla teach command broo? or
command gorp? These are really useful spells...
> but is more likely to include small birds (Duck cannibals, yeah!),
rodents, etc.
Sorry Stephen this is complete non-sense. Ducks are cannibals because they
eat birds? Then humans are cannibals when they eat mammals, specialy
monkeys (and some humans eat monkeys in the RW so I may assume they do it
in Glorantha, maybe in Pamaltela).
> there is a local fishing god in the area, called Pelaskos (mentioned
in the Holy Country article in RuneQuest Companion).
Tanks for the information. I'll have to review it.
Sergio Mascarenhas
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