Re: Re: Alakorings and Heortlings

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_...>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 21:12:51 +1300


Mark Galeotti wrote:

>So where does the kingship function fit? My own view,
>unofficial, unsourced and not especially thought-through, is that a
>cult of Alakoring Rex woud be sponsored and backed by the Tarshite
>royalty to perform this function. Not as a subcult of Orlanth,
>though, but as ancestral hero-saviour of his people.

Tribal Kingship exists no longer in Tarsh. Instead the tribes are ruled by nobility appointed by the King.

As for the rites to crown the King of Tarsh, that is practically the same rite used to crown Illaro and Arim the Pauper.

--Peter Metcalfe

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