>>I don't want to resurrect that painful old thread, but i still think the
>>Pan-Heortling No-Goat, No-Dog Theory is silly.
>
>Interestingly enough, this came up during the course of a discussion on the
>First Age that I had with Greg, Harald and Steve. The conclusions:
Since both you and Steve are firmly in the No-Dog, No-Goat camp, i'm not very surprised that you came to these conclusions.
>1) The Heortling Orlanthi view goats as big rats and associate them as a
>symbol of Ragnaglar. Eating goat-meat is a sign of wretched poverty on the
>level of eating directly out of a dumpster bin.
>2) Alynxes can herd sheep.
You may strait-jacket heortling culture as you please in your own game, but saying that one can't find dogs or goats anywhere in any heortling land is plain silly. Heortling culture isn't a homogenous entity. If the cults and worship of Orlanth vary from region to region, then i fail to see why the attitudes towards goats and alynxes don't.
I'm _not_ saying that _all_ heortling clans keep goats or use dogs for sheep-herding. I'm saying that some do and some don't.
And that's all i have to say about that.
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