Mick :
> recently in our campaign a helemakti warrior fell in love with a
> babeestor gor devotee, and she seems to be all for it too.
Cool : one of my PCs once had an Axe Maiden for
best friend, but this was in Dorastor, so he didn't think her
at all frightening as compared to the rest of the world ...
> I was wondering if anyone out there had any myths or stories about
> women who have taken the Gor attribute and then wanted to return to
> normal life and marry and become fertile again.
>
> Or have you any suggestions as to what this might involve.
AFAIK, there's no specific prohibition against sex, although
there is one against marriage. If she were to specifically join
in union with the Helamakti there are three ways I can think of
offhand :
- Leave the BG cult. This is definitely possible. There are
a couple of grey zones in BG's mythology as published,
but IMO this would be part of the Lifebringers' Return
cycle, where Babs lays down her Axe upon Ernalda's
reawakening to life. She may have to rejoin the
Voria cult, at least briefly, as the primary source of
returning fertility.
- For the Helamakti to join the Heler cult through
the shared subcult rules, if he's an OA Helamakti that is,
and have himself ritually and legally recognised as
female. Babs can then accept "her". Procreation then requiring
not an Instinctive HQ, but an active full-blast one, IMO.
- Just go ahead and do it : and succeed in defeating the
Agents of Reprisal, social and legal challenges from the
rest of society, including various BG sisters. The most effective
way to do this would be to engage in relatively easy
experimental heroquesting : relatively easy because this
sort of thing has been done before. And if the character
is a Helering Helamakti, then I'd suggest that the
HQ wouldn't even be an experimental one : Heler
was one of Babs' very few successful male lovers, IMO.
And he has Fertility to spare : the Helamakti in your
campaign can certainly learn how to put some of it
into his beloved when so desired ...
Julian Lord
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