Pentan Heroes

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_quicksilver.net.nz>
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 22:52:11 +1200

Simon Phipp:

>Thanks. I didn't mean "Knight" in the Gloranthan/Malkioni sense, I was
>being sloppy. A Batyr is a mounted Hero, normally of immense
>strength/skill/cunning. Many of them are also Khans, but not all. I
>suppose "Hero" would do, but I wanted something to convey the meaning
>of "Hero Horseman" rather than simply "Warrior". These are the chaps who
>ride flying horses, catch arrows and fire them back at their enemies, pull
>trees from the ground and hit people with them - not your common and
>garden warriors.

I suppose then some variation upon Hyalor might be useful. This is the guy that taught everybody how to ride horses yet he is not a patron of a Pentan social class. One could say that Pentan heroes follow in Hyalor's path thus explaining their power and social acceptability.

--Peter Metcalfe

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