Re: Tinglet Dangersmile

From: Cheiron <cheiron_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 10:00:47 -0800


Regarding the latest Tinglet story: Pretty cool stuff. But being intimately acquainted... yes, even married to... the player who created Gommorah, I feel compelled to point out a few historical innaccuracies in the Gommorah section. First, and most importantly, the writer is obviously ignorant of the fact that after extracting herself from the deadly cult of Gorgorma (at the very reasonable price of the head of the Teela Nori preistess of the Hold), Gommorah joined the cult of Orlanth Adventurous, to which she remains a loyal devotee to this day. The thought of her actually meditating on the Red Moon (shudder) is purely the invention of the storyteller, who doubtlessly feels compelled to put a pro-Lunar slant on the tale. It will be interesting to see if he acknowledges that after the stilleto, Gommorah's weapon of choice is not the politically correct scimitar, but the regressive aerocentric broadsword. The implication that Gommorah was mistreated by Lunar soldiers while a refugee in Esrolia may also be a distortion. Whether Gommorah was actually sexually assaulted has never been made clear. Certainly _she_ would maintain that her hatred of the Lunars (long un-sullied by the ironic knowledge that she was herself one of them) came from the fact that the legionaires killed her Nurse, who at the time, Gommorah believed to be her biological mother.

All in all, though, fun stuff as usual.

Robert


End of Glorantha Digest V2 #405


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