The cover of Tales 14 shows a scrawny Morokanth martial artist attack a mounted tusk rider lancer having a smallish Ball of Tails on his belt. (Unless being accused of Gregging, a ball of tails is a (anti-)Praxian magic item to trap the spirits of slain herd beasts. They can be bound into their tails and serve as POW-spirits. Actually, they served as generic bound spirits in RQ2, but I think in RQ3 POW-spirits would be the correct way to describe their use, even if their origin is different - I believe that POW-spirits are the spirits of plants. All other spirits feed, ultimately, on them...)
Why would a Morokanth attack somebody for a ball of tails? Herdmen certainly don't provide any prolonged backside appendage. Cutting out the other (very Tusk Rider) possibility, what would a "tail" of a female herd man look like?
Oh, and anybody in contact with Dan, the fellow on the tusker looks remotely familiar. Is there a living model for him?
End of Glorantha Digest V2 #603
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