Re: Re: Orlanthi

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_...>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 20:57:48 +1200


Wesley Quadros:

>CC> Orlanth Thunderous is the Fertility/Farmer aspect. Most men (an
> > Orlanthi most, 35% to 60%) initiate to Thunderous and never change
> > this for the rest of their lives. Of course they still do offer
> > respects to the appropriate gods and aspects of the pantheon as
> > required by ceremony or circumstance.

I would have thought these people were Barntarings and the 15% of the farmers were OT initiates proper.

>This is interesting. About three drafts of the rules ago they had
>removed the "Snow" affinity from OT and replaced it with "Fertility".
>They then removed that affinity and replaced it with "Fight Elements"
>in the next draft. Now, OT does not have any fertility affinity so I
>don't see how OT could be the fertility aspect.

In gloranthan sources, notably Wyrms Footprints, Orlanth Thunderous's "interests are primarily fertility and life orientated" (p75).

--Peter Metcalfe

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