Is it necessary that the earth pantheon incorporate all the roles that the Yelm pantheon does? Even is so, you forgot Esrola...surely she fits the needs percieved? The description in the Prosopaedia of Babeester Gor does not fit IMO, nor does the original version in Wyrm's Foonotes.
Babeester Gor (from the Prosopaedia)
When the God's War perverted the world, the earth brought forth its own grim defender. Babeester Gor was born from her mother's corpse, axes in hand, body ritually scarred to carry deadly magic. She destroyed all kinslayers, all oath-breakers who swore by her mother, and everything which desecrated the sacred places of the earth.
She was merciless and cruel. Once she slew so many defenseless residents of Healing Valley that she waded breast-deep in gore, drinking the blood of victory and slaughter. Eurmal saved some of the healers when he turned the blood to beer, which Babeester Gor drank to blissful Oblivion.
Every important temple to the earth deities is guarded by Babeester Gor's initiates and includes a shrine to her.
She is usually represented in temples as an iron axe decorated with scalps, genitals, and other grisly trophies obtained by her initiates.
It seems to me that she stands outside the sequence presented by Peter. Indeed she seems to have much in common with Humakt or Storm Bull. Certainly, had Onslaught ever gone to Esrolia he would have been so much chopped meat, IMHO!
HUMAKT Where did this Humakti as Fops come from??? Not possible, IMO. Not to mention that Esrolia is not that cosmopolitan! I liked Eric's description of the Skull painted faces. Face-masks (ala Samurai) might also be used. The armour might be fashioned after a skeleton as well? Silver is a big NO,NO, IMO. Why not iron? Lace? Maybe, Maybe not...certainly if used in a masculine/samurai sort of way. Don't like Rapiers in Glorantha...too renaisance-y, which doesn't work for the Holy Country, nor Trowjang, nor the West, IMHO. In fact, Humakti probably use shortswords so that they can be REAL CLOSE when they kill somebody (and not sissy Bastard swords...). Apparently the Spartans used swords so short that they were barely longer than daggers! Hows this...A Good Humakti is so close that he can FEEL the spirit as it leaves his foe's body?
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Seems like Power Gaming to me.
Howard
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