Sounds like the opposite complaint to mine about Onslaught and HQing, almost. To me, the idea of a genre-busting HQ is bordering on a contradiction in terms: if it doesn't fit with the setting, as implict in the genre, what's it doing as a HQ? (OK, one of course can have a genre construction narrower than the notional world, it's true: all that stuff happens, but always off-stage.)
But at any rate: I submit that if the results of a HQ make no sense in terms of the characters-as-peoples' 'mundane' lives, then it's not an accurate representation of a HQ in Gloranthan terms, as well as Loren's point about the characters-as-characters in genre terms.
Cheers,
Alex.
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