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From: "Keith Nellist" <keithnellist_at_rDIMRJbeymWP7T-5FXg2KV28K5eq1_nMGQgc6mcd3WUUwks5PB1JqB3ACuwjyDTVY114h1hZXXWm2EFis-PBHw4.yahoo.invalid>
To: <WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 11:40 PM
Subject: Re:Grotaron sources
> Sadly, on one hand, I am not aware of any other useful information on
Grotarons. On the other hand, the MRQ Monsters has them, with a colour
picture on P74 and inlcudes the interesting fact that female grotarons have
no mammaries, although the picture of the presumed male Grotaron has
nipples. Go figure! On the third hand they have a paragraph in Fronela, but
again there is nothing that is not really covered in Elder Secrets or
Anaxials. I guess a Grotaron completist would need to possess Gloranthan
Beastiary too. I think there is a picture of one in one of the Enclosures.
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> The narrator would have to decide whether Grotarons are "not a gregarious
race" (Glorantha Beastiary) or "a peaceful race of giants who value life and
esteem all intelligent creatures as equals" (MRQ Monsters). Also whether
they "are often hired as mercenaries" (Glorantha Beastiary) or "strongly
dislike killing and will do so only when their foe leaves them no choice"
(MRQ Monsters). The weapon of choice seems to have changed from two handed
sword (MRQ) to maul (GB).
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> Grotaron ilustration is rather weak in my opinion. The Glorantha Beastiary
has one doing some sort of Irish dance, while MRQ Monsters has a dodgy
looking mouth not sickle shaped in the slightest. They both wear big boots,
not mentioned in either texts. Both suffer from being clearly human bodies
with a large chest-mouth drawn on and the head replaced with an arm. I'd
like to see what a Frazetta would have done with this monster, but I see
them as more shaggy, less human.
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> Keith
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