> Is there an equivalent Heortland custom of men giving up their sex?
Yes, Nandan. If you want to play a male character with access to Ernalda subcults you have to worship Nandan.
Also it has been stated on this list before that Humakti possess atitudes that can be percieved as being 'female'.
This is A RPG SUPPLEMENT that represents a culture with all the flaws and problems that exist within real cultures.
Perhaps we should take it as a testament to the fact that Greg, Roderick, John, Robin et al. have created such a realistic picture of Heortling culture in TR that we find them as problematic as and riddled with discrimination as we do RW cultures.
I do not think that there is a single Gloranthan culture that is not without charecteristics that we as 21C people would not find objectionable. And they are far more interesting and real because of that.
The original question: Are their interesting characters you can create from Ernaldan keywords had some merit to it as we can try and make those characeters interesting with ideas presented here.
A discussion of the potential inequalites of Heortling society has some merit to it for furthering our understanding of the attitudes of members of that culture (i.e. women and men tend to regard their traditional roles positively, but 15% not and these find outlet in cults such as Vinga, Maran, and Nandan and will be covered by ST).
A criticsm of the game product because its presentation of Heortling culture mirrors the inequalites of real-life analogue cultures is probably missing the point. These may be valid areas for outrage in real-life, but we are discussing a fictional culture.
Ian
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