Re: The Glorantha Digest V7 #754

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From: david.boatright_at_clinisis.co.uk
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:23:36 +0100

Alex Ferguson

>A household being? The only concrete case I can think of which
>describes such a thing is the Hall/Brooke/et al campaign, which
>IIRC has them as (a sort of) bloodline. While I certainly think
>bloodline organisation/terminology/definition (etc, etc) varies
>significantly, it's not clear to me that one would have a distinct
>role for a clan, a bloodline, a household _and_ a stead, at
>different 'vertical levels'.

What I have been using, based on what I read in KoS is that a _Household_ is a number of hearths ( families) gathered in a stead and any outlying single hearth farms who recognise the Householder as a leader. These families may come from different bloodlines.
>From what I have read of the Grey Dog material they make no
distinction between household and bloodline.