>> Must be a
>> very different Vinga from the one we know in Sartar. Wasn't someone -
>> Jennifer? looking into how that would work, at one time?
>
>Possibly. I would suspect the stress is on *Loyal* Daughter, and
>Defender. That works as a soldier in a country that has a long
>non-expansionistic tradition.
Yes, Vinga the loyal daughter - loyal to her mother not her father. The mother who wants soldiers trained in case of need rather than adventurers stirring up trouble. I can't help feeling that it's another alternative for women before they marry - training the militia. It's quite possible that the Esrolians have squeezed Vinga into this role in the absence of anything better.
> I suppose the Gors (non-Babs) are
>primarily warriors in that case? I don't know enough about them
>to say if they make more or less sense mythically than the Vinga
>we know as soldiers.
Babs is the most extreme but they are all driven by anger against someone who attacked the earth. I'd say they were much more difficult to fit in as soldiers.
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/
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