On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 02:24:18PM -0000, bethexton_at_... wrote:
> I think that part of it would be that most (maybe an Orlanthi most)
> of the adult men would be initiates of Orlanth Adventurous, rather
> than allfather. So they aren't as good at farming and making and
> relationships, but they are good at combat (and movement!). So the
> average combat skills will be higher, with more personal
> augmentations too.
>
> Then, as was already said, their wyter is apt to have abilities
> approprite to a war clan. (detect ambush instead of detect barley
> rot, etc). Also their war band is apt to be proportionately larger,
> so their war band wyter will be more powerful, and is more apt to
> have quested added powers added to it (and if the clan wyter has
> extra powers, more of them are apt to be war related).
>
> Finally, and purely mundanely, you may well see heavier average
> armor, the result of generations of investment and looting.
These are a range of mostly 'fuzzy', or at least continuous qualities
though. My understanding is that it's the nature of the wyter that
_determines_ whether a given clan is a War clan (etc). In so far as a
discrete such designation is meaningful...