RE: Pavis Weds Rufelza

From: Dave Bailey <db_at_uk.hboc.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 07:36:56 +0000


Joerg Baumgartner kindly replies and is showing some patience.......=20

>The carrot to this stick might be not magical items - the Rubble has =
enough
>even to share with the Lunars - but political concessions, like making
>citizens of Pavis citizens or something like citizen-foreigners of the
>glorious empire, and giving access to the Lunar (and other imperial) =
magics.

>Considering that the main foes of the Pavisites are the nomads, =
followed by
>the trolls, an alliance with the Lunars in addition to that with the
>Sartarite settlers can only be of advantage.

Since I've just started running Sun County for my lot (I'm very rusty = and they're Glorantha Virgins) they keep asking me questions I don't now = the answers too, as well as the fact that I see bits and want to know = more myself. I was going to say this looks like a good line for a = campaign but its been done already on a certain level, doh. Is there = perchance a write up of the Freeform?

Fortunately my research had pulled up the above and I can see how the = political landscape lies at the moment - a semi status quo with a = gradual move towards the wedding actually happening, speeding up when = some members pass on. Given that Pavis was well sacked by the Nomads and = Trolls it seems reasonable that a more fragile New Pavis would benefit = from an Alliance with the Lunars.

The political aspect of the wedding I've got covered and I can work = these into a Pavis campaign with no problems.

I'm interested in three things -=20

  1. The Mechanics of one God being *wed* to another. The reason is simple = - - I need to be able to adjudicate what effect, if any, players and NPCs = have on its progress. Practical question - given that the PC's are of = Sartarite stock they're likely to try and prevent the wedding. If the = Pro-Lunar faction within the Pavis temple were killed off could the = Lunars have an Arbalest wedding? Clearly in this situation the contract = wouldn't be as favourable to Pavis.
  2. I'm trying to get to grips with this whole HeroQuest thing, It would = be nice to use the HeroQuests I believe to be going on for this Wedding = as a backdrop. It would help to introduce rookie players to the concept = and modus operandi of a HeroQuest for when they get the chance to do = some themselves.
  3. I want to be consistent with Glorantha at large, I need to be able to = point players at books and say read this without having to say "oh put = ignore this bit" or "I've changed that". I feel a bit reluctant to leap = in any direction 'cause I don't now which is which.

Thanks in advance,

        Dave.


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