Re: Nandan

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:29:52 +0100 (BST)


Sergi Diaz:
> I've been lurking your recent ernaldan posts and I've finally come to
> something I didn't know at all. I'm talking about Nandan. For what I've
> seen it's a way for men having children.

That's right, or specifically that's his 'greater magic', as Greg (I think it was, or perhaps Robin?) put it, his lesser magic being to 'allow' a man to lie with another man, as if he were a woman. (No tittering in the back of the class, small boys!)

Socially, Nandans are males who adopt the female, Ernalda life-path, to a high degree, just how high being a function in some way of their magical commitment, I would think. Pretty much completely, if they've actually 'mothered' a child, IMO.

> What can you tell me about it?
> Where did him appear? (books, fanzines, etc...)

Sadly, what I have to report is mainly 'word of mouth', at conventions and the like. Doubtless he'll be appearing in some form or other in the forthcoming Orlanthi stuff.


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