Joerg Baumgartner wrote:
> Maddy Eid on Gloranthan Cooking Yahoogroup:
> >> Who's responsible for generous snow cover in
> >> Glorantha? Heler is rain; is he also snow?
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> Jane Williams:
> > I don't think he is, no, but I'm struggling to think who the right
> > deity is.
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> > Hostile snow is Valind. Ice is Inora. There's some of Valind's
> > assistants listed on TR p123, but I can't see any indication of snow
> > being a *good* thing.
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> Must be those highlanders who really get snowed in, not the lowlanders =
who
> get deep frost instead when there is no snow.
>
I wrote up Inora for a player [new the HeroQuest and Glorantha] who =
wanted to play a devotee of her. Below is what I had done for him.
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Inora, the Goddess of Snow
Inora is the daughter of Valind the Glacier and Coldara the mighty =
mountain. Inora is the goddess of the mountain snow, the beneficial = winter. She is the winter goddess of the hill folk of Sartar for she=20 blankets the ground with frost and snow to protect the land from her =fathers icy blasts and freezing winds. She preserves plants, fodder and = food until the spring thaw when she releases life-giving water on the = fertile land. =20
White Queen (Call Ice Daemon, Call Snow Sprite, Command Ice Daemon, = Command Snow Sprite, Freeze Air, Freeze Water, Frost Trail, Make Heart = Cold)=20
Snow (Call Snow Fall, Call Blue Snow, Call Black Snow, Ice Blade, Snow = Blind, Snowdrift, Ski Slide) =20
Secret: Call Avalanche (An engulfing avalanche that effects the whole = area is called. Requires there to be heavy snow fall so only usable in = winter or in snow capped mountains)
Other Side: Inora commands the Great Glacier.
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