Dragonewts and Beast People

From: Master Gollum <MasterGollum_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:03:00 +0100


Benedict Adamson:
>I supose having to eat would be one, so perhaps the more spiritually
>advanced Dragonewts don't eat at all, or eat very little.

It's right! 'newts eat a diferent food in each stage. The Peter's observations agree the Book rules and Issaries document. I think dragonewts need eat as other races, at least the three first stages.

Peter:
>Crested 'newts: 10,000
>Beaked 'newts: 6,250
>Tailed Priests: 3,750
>The Dragon's Eye is a large city and thus has between six and twenty-
>five thousand 'newts.

If crested (50% of population) eat leaves and bark, that pick in forest, and the Beaked (30%) hunt around whole Dragon Pass and Prax, they need invert too much time! The 80% of city is out! They cann't go out city for eat every day. An hunter economy is very expensive in time and resource.

>Beaked 'newts are carnivores and must support themselves by hunting.
Beaked 'newts are the warriors of Dragonhood. Thus a basic mainstay for the security of their nests. An important number of beakeds need stay there.
I imagine 'newt comunity as a beehive or an ant's nest. Not only for their architecture, also for their organization of work. The crested 'newts are the working class, the moviment of nest, they are slave, in charge to provide the nest of vital needs. Possibly groups of hunter of crested lead for beaked 'newts cross Dragonewt Roads to remote places. The Groups of Hunter and Dance are importants, not only for the survival of Dragonhood place, also its are educational function. Its are the first step for the individual meditation of next stages.

    Harpies
    These foul hybrid women are a degenerative race of beast folk,     posibly related to the Swan Maidens of Kerofinela. They are no     truly of chaos, [...]

                    Lords of Terror, pg 18

>the Elurae fox-women

I never read about them. Who are?

I mention the possible connection between ninfes and beast people, beacause classic mitology connect the satirs with them. Besides in centaur description say these creatures are respect by others creatures of nature, as ninfes, satirs or children of wind. And they are a shamantic society.

Master Gollum
http://www.dragonmania.com/glorantha


End of The Glorantha Digest V7 #476


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