Julian Lord in Glorantha digest v8#319:
>The myth sort of writes itself, so it just has to be true.
[the myth writes itself]
Cool myth! I like the Blue Lion stuff. The Lion King's Feast wasn't a metaphor...
Lion ecology
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Several lion species in Wenelia... but where do lions usually live? Are the
Wenelian ones all Gloranthan forest species? Unfortunately there's no
mention of those lions in Anaxial's Roster. As for manes, i suppose only the
Blue Lions have one. The others may be those sneaky, cowardly animals who
could be the typical losing bad guy in stories (usually "how the boar does
this or that to the lion").
Peter Metcalfe:
>I would handle the Wenelians by giving them a boar _aspect_ to replace
>Orlanth Allfather (and perhaps Orlanth Thunderous).
IMG i'd like the fighting subcults to have that boar aspect (see below for bloody details) and the boar aspect would be fine for the Thunderer as well as Allfather. OTOH some Thunderer subcults can be awesome magicians with little or no boar-like powers (though the boar iconography may remain).
But is Orlanth Adventurous humanoid? Sort of human, adventurous, 'intelligent' aspect whereas the others are untamed, wild natural powers...
>The feats and affinities of this aspect are not dressed up Mralot's talents
>dressed up but different powers.
Surely they don't shapechange. But their boar feats are probably, well,
boar-inspired so that Mraloti could have had something similar before they
became oppressed, tamed pigs living under the Ramalian lords' boot.
Kill a Wenelian with one blow. Wounded boars are really dangerous and pain
really makes them mad... Ever seen a Wenelian warrior fighting and breaking
his opponents' legs with three javelins stuck in his back?
If a Wenelian is charging at you, jump and grab a branch. They can't climb
trees when they're berserk. Yet it's possible that they break the trunk and
kill you.
And they've got that terrible blow that spill your guts all around.
Sometimes they open your belly and grab your intestines and fight
one-handed, pulling them out with the other weapon or with their teeth.
Beuark!
Of course, the warriors communicate with grunts.
Jerome
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