Re: New Character Questions

From: David Dunham <david_at_...>
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 10:59:01 -0800


Gil

>God Forgot definitely sounds like a possibility. The one thing
>that's kind of tricky is that, visually, he's thinking more like a
>character from Teshnos (more of an Indian/Cambodian flavor). Still,
>I could see someone who has traveled in these areas and perhaps
>adopted a style of dress.

Firstly, I wouldn't be too constrained by the analog. There's a lot of Indian flavor in the Lunar Empire as well, and I have lifted certain Cambodian things for other parts of Glorantha.

Second, people in a port city may well dress funny.

Third, there may be a lot of fashion conservatism (don't people at Oxford still wear medieval costumes to this day?). So maybe his order originated at a time when people dressed lke he wants to.

>How crazy would it be for someone from Jrustela or Seshnela to be
>arriving on the southern shores of Heortland with the Hero Wars
>beginning...?

If they arrive from Jrustela, they're not human. But there are known to be Seshnelan adventurers in the Dragon Pass region...

[on my Sword Sage]

>Was your character part of any orders there in Pavis? Was he sent
>to do this sort of research, or did he set out to blaze a trail on
>his own?

Draconic Lore was his own specialty. He was mostly learning from the archives, we didn't have a group doing this. You could create one, of course.

Mike

>But when I thought about some of the things you mentioned: God
>Learner exposure, EWF
>interest, an Orlanthi--what came to mind next was to run a Second
>Age game. Then you
>can have a god learner, a EWF mystic and an orlanthi dragonfriend.

Good thought! I've done some Imperial Age gaming and it's a lot of fun. There's even Rough Guide to Pavis City (available from The Chaos Society), which describes Pavis in the year 894 ST, if you don't want to invent everything.

-- 

David Dunham
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein

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