(nb: how do you pronounce that? :-))
<< Men are worshipping Orlanth and women Ernalda? I always wondered about this exclusiveness. A large proportion of sartarite society should be peasants. How is their day to day life? Women working on the fields, while men raiding the neibouring clan? Well, may be a couple of days a year. But most time male farmers have to work as farmers.>>
Pretty much, yes.
<<What has Orlanth to offer them? Some exciting myths they can tell their children. >>
Well, this is one way in which HW is, IMO a definate improvement on what has gone before - lest anyone thinks I'm a counterrevolutionary and hate the thing! What male Orlanthi farmers do is worship Barntar, the plough god and a son/aspect of Orlanth (I'm not entirely clear which). Previously, although he did exist according to some sources, we had no rules for him, and men were pretty limited in their agricultural magics - no reusable Bless Crops spells for them!
Under HW we get rules for Barntar at last, and - so I'm given to understand - rather more detailed and interesting magics than 'Bless Crops'.
<<IMO Ernalda is much more close to them. I believe a lot of male "Orlanthis" worships her.>>
No, but they can get much the same powers from somewhere else.
Forward the glorious Red Army!
Trotsky
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