Storm Bloke

From: Kmnellist_at_aol.com
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:01:54 EDT


Nick Brooke:-<<
> the Storm Herd Human (!?)
 

 I suggested "Storm Bloke" as the Morokanth name for Storm Bull around a year  ago. Maybe it'll catch on?
  >>

I think this is great. I've tried to think of a better word but have failed. I like the idea, not only because Morocanth berserkers can now charge into battle shouting "STORM BLOKE!" and say things like "by the power of the Bloke" or even " the Power of the Bloke is in me". Parts of the Bloke is also a great set of subservient cults - Bloke's Feet, Bloke's Heart, Head of the Bloke.

On a slightly seperate HW thread the key word for 'Wind Voice' could be 'Wind Bloke'? Perhaps it won't catch on as well.

On Storm Bloke's cult as a dangerous berserker cult - I feel that this is a non praxian (ie Pavic) view of the cult. I think that from a Praxian/Waha point of view the Storm Bull cult is a kind of Holy calling. I think the warriors are viewed as sacred (and also dangerous). I get the impression that Storm Bull and Eiritha had a pretty nice place to live in Genert's Garden. Ernalda had no problem giving Storm Bull her daughter (Eiritha) as a wife. Storm Bull never seems to go around messing things up like Umath or Orlanth. He is a much nobler beast. Waha is a much more pragmatic and cynical deity with his problem solving approach to, for example, washing away the devil by digging a canal, devising a way of surviving by drawing lots to manage resources etc. Storm Bull would not have used such methods, nor would his followers. He uses raw strength and courage, and so should his followers.

Keith N


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