What a _horrible_ idea! The possible game-rape this provides horrifies my trollish soul. Having stockpiles of these things flying through trollish caverns, air ducts, etc. -- ew. Any other Gulf War weapons that could be handed over to the Aldyrami? Feul-air explosives? F-16s? Scuds? The Red Moon Mind Control Lasers? ;)
Even worse, it means the glorius Troll Air Force can't continue its overflight scouting missions of Elf Woods -- too vulnerable to Elven SAArrow attacks. Curses!
On a more serious note, Sureshot already gives an effect pretty close to this -- I'd think the elves pick up their Smart Arrows (shudder) from Golden Bow rather than as a specially planted item.
Hmm. Time for Grubfarm Military Complex to start up research on the Sgt. Badass Anti-Arrow system as a countermeasure.
Carolyn wrote on the Kitori:
> according to Gorakiki subcults as offered on an excellent webpage I
> unfortunately can't credit just now, (insert malign computer rune reference
> here) they do, as in my game.
Whoops! As Stephen Martin points out, there may not be the right ecosystem
for bees. My mistake. Termites might work. Please post the website
address when you can -- always looking for good bug ideas. :)
> I still think you're missing the point, that Ernalda is the mother/wife
> cult of the Kitori <humans & Uz of the Troll Wood>
Errr.....
There's not exactly tons of info on the Kitori, so mst of the stuff I'm
aware of is in Trollpak and RQA#4 (which explicitly says it's focusing on
the Whitehall Kitori, so the Woods Kitori might be different). And _to my
knowledge_ (I could well be wrong), the mother/wife cult is Kyger Litor,
with the father/husband cult Orlanth. I actually don't see any reference
to Ernalda in the published stuff (not that that means the Kitori
don't worship Ernalda, but that it's hard to get a point you've never
heard of before -- the published stuff is different from what you've
expanded on).
Argan Argar is listed in RQA as an "official state religion," so Ernalda is going to be important as a former bride of AA. But IMO, Kyger Litor is always the mother/wife cult of trolls -- if she's not, then they're not trolls (in the mythic sense). If Ernalda is the mother/wife and AA the father/husband, then IMO they're not trolls. <Shrug> Oh, racially they're trolls now, but over time they'd lose their tie to the Darkness rune. (You might really hate this idea, but I think it's justified. The state of the troll race is directly related to Kyger Litor -- when she sorrows for Korasting, the uzuz decline. When Korasting gets opened up from crotch to throat, the enlo arrive. From this, it seems logical that if trolls stop worshipping KL, they gradually stop being trolls, because KL's not providing the "troll stuff" the uz need to be uz.)
AA is not a troll -- he's not descended from Kyger Litor, Mother of Trolls. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but I don't think he can provide the link between Darkness and Man that KL does (and depending on which contradictory myth you prefer, he never lived in the Underworld, so his ties to Darkness are a little different, too). Ernalda is _really_ not a troll. So how the heck do they manage to keep their link to Kyger Litor? Keep her as a secondary deity subservient to an Earth Goddess? Ew. What a sorry-butt bunch of demi-trolls the Kitori are (from the Dakori Inkarth POV). :) The idea of replacing KL with Ernalda would be more then enough to earn the Kitori their reputation for weirdness (that, and sleeping with Humans. C'mon, we _all_ know about it. ;) Even the idea of KL taking a husband (she doesn't have one in troll myth, after all) would seem kind of weird. Share power? With a _male_?!
Yah, this begs the question of what KL provides the Human Kitori. Also suggests that Karrg isn't worshipped (so KL has no runelord among the Kitori) since Orlanth is taking over the protector role. Don't know how you've resolved this for your Kitori.
You may well completely disagree with this, and your Kitori may be very different, natch, worshipping Ernalda to their heart's content. Which would explain why your Kitori are letting Troll Public Enemy and Menu Item #1 run around, unmolested; while the Kitori I'd envision would have merrily roasting them over spits centuries ago. <Shrug> I think we'll have to agree to disagree.
> and the fems arn't going
> to be interested in some pogrom obsessed warriors telling them what to do,
> or who to hang out with, and Aldrya is an associated cult of Ernalda.
So? Storm Bull is an associated cult of Orlanth and of ZZ. Never stopped
the Zorak Zorani from thumping on Orlanthi. Inter-cult fighting occurs.
Trolls whack trolls, despite the fact that they worship the same gods.
Orlanthi kill each other. Lunars love to assassinate lunars.
Heck, just look at the Tarkalorsaga in _King of Sartar_ (pg. 174) where the Kurtali clan of Orlanthi worshippers gleefully slaughter the Kitori.
And IMO, Ernalda worshipers have fought Aldryami _lots_ of times. Elf forests used to cover vast tracts of land, land now held by Human agriculturalists; the Ernalda worshippers must have given tacit support to the roll-back. Gloranthans are just as good as RW humans in rationalizing struggle against co-religionists when it's to their benefit.
End of Glorantha Digest V4 #452
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