> RW History is full of succesful military coup.
> An efficient military system depends mainly on its
> leader.
Esrolia is notorious for its inefficient military, which might answer how there are no military coups there.
> Even more among Orlanthi. A charismatic
> military leader is very likely to take civil power.
A sensible charismatic leader won't touch it with a twelve foot pike. Civil power comes with all kinds of civic burdens keeping him from doing what he's good at, leading his men into battle. Getting in charge of telling civil powers what to do is slightly different, but won't take those already in charge from their positions.
> How do Ernaldan leaders solve this ?
They marry those military leaders, or they do the Boudicca/Vinga part themselves.
One form of Vinga worship is the Orlanthi woman taking up weapons to avenge or defend her family. Orlanthi woman pretty much equals Ernalda initiate, whatever additional allegiances she may have. So, if an Ernaldan leader sees the need to lead her army from the front, she had better aquire the necessary magics and training. Vinga offers this way with the least social, and more important, magical trouble. After all, an Ernaldan leader has become such by representing Ernalda. Any new magics which impede her performance at her strengths won't do.
The usual method of Ernalda was to marry a champion for some time. In Esrolia, this has been established in the Year Kings.
End of The Glorantha Digest V7 #188
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