Re: Orlanthi depictions

From: Nick Eden <nick_at_wJsDCWtWzJwNawshYdGVwWejszdhSmbQBg9iHXkALGFudaerQd5DDopG5LAcWxQWG4tw2ii>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 18:31:04 +0100


The kodp Orlanthi are not eclusively blonde, but some certainly are. The pictures on the a-sharp website show a mix of blonde and brown hair.

On Friday, September 4, 2009, ttrotsky2 <TTrotsky_at_Od7q5Oi4HmH9VdZOVKxjS5BVsUB2ZKjbxKn_fEY42V0sSbZ9hNnBQdBTMO06ZsXmK0V9eDXWHAV9PKOOOiMs.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> Indeed. Kodp remains my dominant idea of what the Orlanthi look like.
>> And the sure don't look like Afghans there.
>>
>> On Friday, September 4, 2009, Guy Hoyle <guy.hoyle_at_...> wrote:
>> > Though I'm tending to side more with the "official" interp of skin and
>> > hair, there are plenty of contradictory examples. Doesn't the artwork
>> > in KoDP, for example, depict fairskinned Orl,thi? That would tend to
>> > skew peopes' opinions somewhat.
>
> Certainly, that remains my basis for visualising the Orlanthi, and if My Glorantha Varies as a result, then so be it (even if it's "wrong"). Of course, having said that, KoDP doesn't depict them as blond-haired vikings, either, so there's not much official support for that particular position. (Though, if it works for someone else, who am I to argue?)
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