> At 12:04 21/08/01 +0000, you wrote:
>
> >I recently ran an episode for our group, which involved the
> >HonEel corn rites. I decided to modify the supposition that
> >Alanthore is the *victim' in the rights and made Sinodal the
> >victim. Why? Sinodal is the elf-god lover of HonEel.
>
> Why? HonEel rescues Sinoda by killing Alanthore and gets corn.
> Without her intervention, Sinoda gets killed and the crop
> fails. Alanthore's death is necessary for HonEel's corn rite to
> succeed and for that reason, the people who play him
> ("convicted criminals, madmen, or impoverished down-and-outs"
> Glorantha:Intro pp102) are victims.
There is absolutely no reason why factions should not have varying
interpretations of the same event. Otherwise we get back into the
one true Glorantha debates. Perhaps this is better discussed on the
GD.
regards,
Charles