In my Glorantha -- and by extension yours, as I'm a genius -- Rhaffa Khan Rhaffa Khan (Let me rock you) commands his Sable hordes from an item of great (nay, untold) power: THE YURT OF EFFICACIOUS COMMAND. In AD&D terms, this is a military artifact/relic of a good half-a-page description; in HeroQuest it is "YURT OF EFFICACIOUS COMMAND 1W4".
It's kind of like a cross between Baba Yaga's hut and NORAD.
This was actually made and enchanted by Sheng Seleris, and served as his home as he invaded the Empire. It was then found by the Sable Khans*. It is sown of the squirming hides of all the races of the Inner World; a flayed, taxidermic Noah's Ark, if you will.
[*Some say it's actually a cheap reproduction, of faux flayed flesh, and has "MADE IN TORANG" runescribed in one corner. The scribes of the Yurting and Wagoning Club have made no pronouncement on this matter.]
Rhaffa Khan Raffa Khan (Let me rock you) uses this to cement his power, and many oppressed Gerendethi bandits try and steal it from him. The fad caught on. Fazzur made a yurt of duckskin for campaigning when he oversaw the pogrom against the ducks.
On the wankage note, I know for a fact that at least one matriarch down near Holy Country-way keeps herself eternally young by bathing yearly in a steaming pool of duckwank. Or is that Great Sister? I can never remember.
Stu.
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