> Jane and Donald have been talking about a distinctly
> unusual initiation history.
I did warn you :(
> > >Initiation to adulthood at age 14.
> >
> > Bit late for a girl.
>
> It's probably late according the theory in Thunder
> Rebels. It's early
> according to the description of initiation in King
> of Sartar, which was
> the state-of-play when this story began.
This timeline comes from OiD, so I suspect the TR description is the one we're working to.
> By the way, I thought I'd read somewhere that she
> initiated to Ernalda at 14.
> Is that a mis-reading of the standard
> Heortling and communal Storm pantheon initiation,
It sounds to me like "Initiation to adulthood".
> This is a special case, but it's where the lack of
> apparent Ernaldan
> initiation becomes a concern. Is the idea of having
> to go through
> Ernalda to reach Vinga a later addition to the
> corpus?
Sorry, you've lost me. Later than what?
> Was this when Rigsdal was a standalone god rather
> than a subcult of Humakt or Elmal?
Rigsdal was, AFAIK, invented for HW, there is only one version of the write-up, and he can indeed be a stand-alone god (though this is weird!). Her stats for 1621 show only one Affinity from her Rigsdal membership, though, which sounds a bit odd if he's stand-alone in this case? I don't have the books with me in work, though.
> If this is Vanganth as a subcult of Orlanth ...
> She's a Vingan already, and Vinga is the path to
> Orlanth for women, so
> she's effectively picking up another Vingan subcult.
That was my thought. Later she swaps to Vinga Dar - it's just a case of *which* version of Vinga she picks to start with, perhaps?
> Um, maybe not as much as a few typical case studies
> would help. :-)
Oh, agreed. I wish there were some. Later books, perhaps, or have I missed some? I'd expect this sort of backstory to be a standard part of character generation, myself, are there examples in there that I've missed?
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