Re: Head-Hunting

From: Nick Brooke <Nick_Brooke_at_compuserve.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 04:07:58 -0500



Andy Staples asks:

> Where has this idea of Orlanthi taking heads come from? Is there a
> published item about it, or is it just part of the continual Celti-
> fication of Orlanthi?

The "Headhunters" were one of the units of the Sartar Free Army in the boardgame "White Bear and Red Moon". You can't get much older than that!

> It just seems a bit too Thanatari to me...

Thanatari head-taking is a vile chaotic perversion of the ancient and honourable Orlanthi practice of headhunting.

More headhunting hijinks in the story of "The Fox King", available on my homepage: <http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Nick_Brooke>

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