>I'm still wondering about those small kingdoms next to Loskalm.
There's only one small kingdom.
>What does the "barbarian" refer to.
Barbarian is used in the sense of the Barbarian Belt, an RQism for Orlanthi culture.
>Does it mean they are primitive
>malkioni? Are they pagan? Are they some sort of henotheists in between the
>two?
A hitherto unmentioned source is Player's Book: Genertela (p13) which describes Oranoar as not worshipping the Invisible God unlike Jonatela next door. Given that we already have a kingdom of semi-Malkionized Orlanthi in Fronela, I feel that Oranor should be thoroughly pagan and this contributed to the estrangement of Oranor from both Jonatela and Loskalm during the Ban.
>How much power does this barbarian king have? How independent
>are the nobles (lesser tribal kings?) in his country. Do they have
>wizards? (Doesn't sound very barbarian to me), or just priest and
>liturgists?
There's no source that details this and given Oranor's isolation in the ban virtually any social system could have come into being. If Oranor does have an organized priesthood then it would be far closer to Celtic Druids than Malkioni Clergy.
--Peter Metcalfe
End of Glorantha Digest, Vol 11, Issue 177
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