Re: In Defence Of A Goddess

From: Chris Lemens <chrislemens_at_2q-BdULp7TtW6xg9k6xqsQCorIkCwcgsSbA9xIfbT1QzlpDXTPuocYuUZ9_qVvQM>
Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 20:23:38 -0700 (PDT)


Andy sez:

> P.S. A lot of yanks look stupid when they say "my bad" too.

Yankees look stupid. No qualifier necessary.

And making every Vingan a lesbo is stupid, too. You want lesbo Vingans, fine -- nothing says there are none. But nothing published says there's even a tendency that direction. So, John, post that essay on the WoG site, so that nothing ever does.

I still think Vinga's an overranked goddess, with too much attention paid to her because of who her #1 follower in modern Glorantha is. I personally just think of her as a Thunder Brother who was female. I think that explains most of her, so long as you then set her in the period when everything was going to shit and anyone who was anyone had to step it up or die trying. She saved some kids; that's cool. The other Thunder Brothers have their myths. I just don't find the whole "Vinga got pregnant" story persuasive at all. She's a female Thunder Brother; I don't remember any myths of Thunder Brothers becoming parents.

If you want to make that story into something interesting, maybe "Vinga gets pregnant" is one of the stories that the First Council's missionaries decided didn't fit, so suppressed it. The story gets revived accidentally through aggressive heroquesting. Think of the divisions: the conservatives say, "That's not Vinga. Vinga didn't get pregnant. She's a kick-ass Thunder Brother warrior chick." The radicals say, "It is Vinga; we proved it on the hero plane. She's just like any other woman."

But I never play Orlanthi anyway, so what do I know? Praxian chicks have very few warrior role models to begin with.

Chris            

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