On Friday 23 December 2005 7:55 pm, Jane Williams wrote:
> I believe there was a sort of "musical names" going on among the Earth
> Goddesses when TR came out. The goddess everyone knew as Babeester Gor got
> renamed to something or other, I remember that much, and her name got used
> for some really extreme variant that was more or less unusuable as a PC and
> certainly wasn't consistent with existing Babs PCs.
I remember seeing comments on this before. Babs seems to be a dangerous psychopath and Erantha, I think, has ended up as the woman warrior type. Since I joined with HQ, I never encountered the old version of Babs, so it never seemed odd with me.
> Ernalda seems to have
> got split up into lots of aspects, Esrola being one of them.
So Esrola didn't really show up much pre-Hero Wars? Ernalda just was all those roles? (Of course, the relationship between great gods and their subcults is full of weird overlaps and such -- i.e. a god being a subcult of more than one other god. So Esrola being a sister and subcult of Ernalda in the Sartarite vision doesn't bother me.)
> Then HQ came out and the Esrolia keyword, and this new "Imarja" appears as
> the new name for (part of?) what was formerly Ernalda. P42 - and includes a
> reference to Ernalda's husband-protectors, though doesn't name them.
> Argan-Argar is mentioned as the Dark Husband, but no others seem to be
> named.
I've mostly read Imarja as the Kero Fin of Esrolia. She's the physical landscape goddess. (Mind you, I think Kero Fin might actually BE a goddess, while Imarja is more debatable.) Some kind of landscape daimon, or essence, or spirit.
Argan Argar is the only Husband-Protector named, and is for "Petty Noble (men)", I presume the other Husband protectors also makes sense for that. (Mind you, I don't know who they are. I have always assumed they roughly match the factions, but I'm not sure what those are, either.)
Interestingly, I notice that Esrola herself is nowhere to be found (Esra is recommended as the farmer goddess). Oddly, Babeester Gor is placed as the woman warrior cult, and Humakt as the male. Maybe because warriors are rare in the society, they tend to be extremist cults? There are also Voudisea the Lance Goddess and Epikhor the Librarian who I don't know. (Epikhor seems to be a subcult of Lankhor Mhy, though.)
Mind you, I have always taken the homelands as incomplete in such matters (they are but 2 pages, after all), but I do think they are supposed to be the common selections of those roles. (Which means your typical Esrolian PC warrior woman is going to be worshipping Babeester Gor. Maybe she is calmer in Esrolia than in Sartar?)
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