Re: The Glorantha Digest V6 #420

From: darvall <madamx_at_ns2.mikka.net.au>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 11:02:41 +1100

Adam Betteridge writes
>All this marriage talk is very timely as I will be tying the not Myself in
>a week or so.
>(Got that bunny in the road feeling)
>
>In our game we have been playing my character has been blessed with
>triplets, >I seem to recall in KOS this results in one of the children
>going to live with >the Chief of the Clan. How would this tie in with the
>current discussion, >would the child remain my daughter & the chief's
>foster child or does she >become the chief's daughter. How did the
>practice of the third child out of >triplets being given to the chief, is
>it for mythological or social reasons. My >own GM when I showed him said
>that in all liklyhood the chief would become the >father & foster the
>child back to me. Is this how it should work?

Its your GM's call in that game. That said; the Orlanthi actually have a choice (unlike us poor RW mob it seems that they CAN choose their relatives). This would mean that the child would be disposed as pleased the chief. Gloranthan mythic reasons ARE the social reasons (same in RW really). What those particular reasons are has yet to be defined. The girl would probably still be related closely enough to make her taboo.

P.S. my sympathy on your rabbitty feelings. Just done it myself & am now staring down the barrel of fatherhood. More like a bunny in a spotlight.

Darvall
madamx_at_mikka.net.au
>From quiet homes & first beginnings

Out to the undicovered ends
Theres nothing worth the wear of winning But laughter & the love of friends.
Hilare Belloc

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