Re: Re: Following the Leader....

From: Peter Larsen <plarsen_at_...>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 23:24:12 -0600

At 5:00 PM +1300 3/10/02, Peter Metcalfe wrote:
>Peter Larsen:
>
>>There's certainly something a little odd about Dar. It's an Orlanth
>>subcult, yet we know women (I assume not specifically Vingans) can join
>>(TR, 200).
>
>Women who worship Dar the Leader do so as Vingans.

        This is what I would usually assume, especially since Orendana's feats seem about as useful as Dar's, but "Although many women leaders worship Dar the Leader..., some worship Orendana the Queen, especially in matriarchal tribes and clans" suggests that there are more female worshippers of Dar than there are worshippers of Orendana. Considering Ernaldans outnumber Vingans some 85 to 1, this is hard to believe.... Chalk it up to a slightly misleading sentence, I suppose.

>>but surely there are clans with Chiefs who worship Heler, Humakt,
>>maybe Issaries or Barntar...
>
>And Tribes also, cf Barbarian Adventures.
>
>>What do they do about leadership magic? Are they just bad at it?
>
>They are either just bad at it or they worship Orlanth as an
>initiate (which requires them to be just initiates to their
>main god).

        It's also possible (as I realized after I posted) there could be as-yet undescribed subcults to provide leader magic. It's a little hard to imagine for Humakt, him being anti social and all, but Efrodar (there's that "-dar") has command magic, so. Heler was a leader of a great people, so he might have a leader sub-cult, etc.

Peter Larsen