Re: Esrolain grandmas and secrecy

From: Greg Stafford <glorantha1_at_3f5M4CGmnKhBDCe2B7hSo-pB8PoLx-DtmBjxluMSkRbDSFo-dsMB_SXcsg-x78Fbg>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:03:29 -0700

YGWV On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:59 AM, <hcarteau_at_9jZeJeKH80HaN7bHCTTbIzu8fnNjTYpW42kez3ZnVzxMKFYqCHHLi-eAsNev1z5t06Za7voBLmM.yahoo.invalid> wrote: >
> I have a question about how widely-known by outlanders is the political
power of
> esrolian grandmothers. My players, playing merchant prince characters from
Fay
> Jee, will soon reach the end of their Trekk and meet the Yellow Earth
Queen.

Or more likely, her servants (at first)

> Before they do, I wonder what the merchant princes (and Greymane, and
lunar
> instrumentalities, and heortlings) know about the Council of Grandmothers
that
> acutally rule Esrolia. Do they know queens such as the Yellow Earth answer
to
> this council ?

I think so
The custom is centuries old

> I suspect everybody knows that Grandmothers have total power over their
> daugters, granddaugthers etc. But are they aware of political consequences
?

I think so.

-g

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