Well, know, I wasn't, since I didn't meet Vinga until HW. I think I was influenced by a thread (in this list maybe?) a few years ago perhaps, discussing what kept Vingans from having babies (was it a magical property of the henna, was it following Vinga, etc). I probably read Storm Tribe already thinking they were infertile, and never saw anything to contradict that.
My impression of the issue was roughly "It seems like a rough restriction, but I guess it is meant to be like with Orlanth Adventurous versus Allfather, that if you want to stop the adventuring life and have a family, you can transfer to Ernalda. Restrictive, but I guess that is the way they wanted it."
Overall, I'm glad to discover that I'm wrong, as it opens up new story possibilities.
However, it does raise the question: Do Vingans have any way of preventing conception? Assuming that they don't want to become pregnant, do they have to avoid the likely causes thereof? Or is there some element of choice there?
-Bryan
> The one written in the days when it was a fight to get
> female adventurers accepted at all, and having female
> warriors who were also a part of normal society was
> unheard of. (They're all mad anyway, so just make them
> Babs or Humakt or Storm Bull.) Written before we
> realised that children are brought up by a clan, not
> by an unsupported family of one male, one female: so
> any woman who wanted to travel, much less fight, *had*
> to have reliable contraception.
>
> We've moved on since then. We've realised that Vinga
> is a popular cult, not just a fringe idea for
> extremists (and I'm talking about players here, not
> Gloranthans!) We've even realised that Sartar is less
> sexist than the Sun Dome, which itself is less sexist
> than the RW. Vinga doen't have to be a feminist icon
> any more. She's moved back into normal Gloranthan
> life, where she belongs. And yes, Vingans have
> children if they want to, and not if they don't. Just
> like everyone else. It's just rather more likely in
> their case that they don't.
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