>This never seemed to appear on the Digest, so I'm reposting it and hoping it
>doesn't appear twice...
Huh! Same thing happened to me! Piggybacking on Trotsky's replies...
> 2) And women? Do they get to participate in the tournaments?
>IMO, yes. Whether there's very many female knights is another matter,
>but there's nothing to stop them trying for qualification if they want
>to.
Kids, Kirks and Kitchen is unfortunately what most Loskalmi think women are best at. However there are a few women knights, Gunda the Guilty being the best known example. However because Gunda the Guilty is also a renegade and a close pal of Harrek the Berserk, Women Knights are frequently viewed with suspicion in Loskalm.
Even the Rokari have an order of female knights that resembles Joan of Arc.
>Well, regular Telmori certainly wouldn't do [hitch their wolves to
>chariots] IMO since it would be enslaving their totem as a beast
>of burden, which isn't allowed in hsunchen religion.
Chapter and verse? This would be like saying that the Uncolings don't ride their reindeer or use them to carry stuff, which would be an extremely stupid thing to do.
>While the KoW are not regular Telmori, I'd personally still imagine
>that they'd have to follow their god's normal restrictions to that
>extent, so I don't really see this as a possibility, I'm afraid.
The KoW can do whatever they want with their gods and so they are not subject to normal prohibitions.
Alexandre Lanciani:
>[On the idea that Snodal is the Nameless Man]
Me>> Snodal's ghost has been spoken to since the Ban fell (follows
>>quote from 5th Wane History).
>Actually there is no evidence that the spirit was indeed Snodal's ghost,
>although it could be without disrupting my idea, no?
Take it as given that the summoned spirit is Snodal's Ghost. He was recognized and named. Therefore it seems pretty strong that he is not the Nameless Man. If you want to run some campaign based on your theory, that's fine by me, but it's best if you just simply discard any statements that contradict your theory.
>Even if the heirs have spoken to him, they did not ask the proper
>question, and this is why he remains Nameless (like the story of
>the Fisher King).
And the proper question is what?
>Maybe they did recognize him and so didn't ask (a little fragile).
But they did question him as to why he ordered the Ban.
>> The Nameless Man, or at least another spirit of the same
>> name, has been around long before the Ban fell.
>Uhm... maybe it's a deliberate mistake on the part of scribes. The
>Nameless Man became so recurrent a theme of Fronela's myth that
>those who copied the prophecy wrote "returns" instead of "comes"
>to give the prophecy a longer lifetime. Could it be plausible?
Not to me, I'm afraid.
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