Re: Sword and Helm Saga

From: Jeff Kyer <jeff.kyer_at_...>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 20:11:57 -0000

wrote:
> The Sword and Helm War (also referred to as a Quest and as a Saga)
is
> mentioned in G:itthw as a disaster that killed off the Esrolian
king
> and most of the adult males and led to the Esrolians becoming a
(far
> more interesting) matriarchal civilisation.
>
> Can anyone point me to a source that gives any further detail on
this
> (I thought it was in Tales of the Reaching Moon somewhere but can't
> find it) - it doesn't appear to be on Glorantha.com and the few
> mentions on the Glorantha Digest don't add any more than the
summary
> above.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Roger

The Sword and Helm Saga was the fall of the Vingkotlings -- the sons of Vingkot fight among themselves after Vingkot dies from his chaos-wounds. This results in the scattering of the orginal tribes and the destruction of that first Orlanthi civilization. Things are pretty grim after that until Heort rediscoveres the ways of kingship.

I think there will be some stuff coming out on it in historical section Thunder Rebels, at least in passing. There's supposedly somewhat of a segment on it in Harmast's Saga but that's kinda obscure
;-)

There's some information on it written by Martin L on Wesley's Gloranthan site.

Hope this helps, though its not much.

Jeff