The other really obvious difference is that you're going to see armed women rather than men and the people you have to speak with are invariably women. None of this equal opportunity guff that you get in Heorlting villages, they know the proper order of things:-)
All the major roles, traders, village leaders, craftspeople, etc. are women, even the burly village smith under the spreading chesnut tree. When the children run away from strangers they run to their male caretakers. I don't know if they'd be their fathers, probably more likely to be their uncles.
Another big difference is that nature is farther away in Esrolia for the most part. Nature has been tamed there and you have to wander pretty far or out of the way to leave farmland behind. Much more built up and developed than Sartar. High population density too so it's crowded, even in the villages. Of which there are lots more and closer together. The political structure's strange too as the village leader is the representative of an area ruler who's responsible to someone higher up the chain (and they're all women). Is sanitation worse, probably not.
Don't ask me where this all came from, I guess it decided to write itself:-)
Oliver
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From: ian_hammond_cooper [mailto:ian_hammond_cooper_at_...]
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 12:40 PM
To: HeroWars_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: A community creative challenge
Taking up John Hughes's call-to-arms for more DIY creativity on the list I thought about proposing a challenge for anyone interested.
I'm planning a side-trip to Esrolia for my group, but so far there has been very little written about Esrolia, so I'm going to need to create some details for the places they go. I don't need grand detail somuch as the everyday life of people in Esrolia.
http://www.glorantha.com/new/q-and-a/esrolia.html
gives us a good summary of Esrolia as a matriachal Heorlinginfluenced culture and should be our baseline.
Remember, I'm NOT interested in big picture desctiptions here, instead I wanted to describe a typical Esrolian village. What does it look like, what kind of buildings are there, who is in charge, what is day-to-day life like. Assuming the material in TR as a baseline, what kind of things would the average Heortling ariving in such a village notice. I'm also interested in personalities for our sample village particularly ones that illustrate the roles of men and women. Pick out what's interesting about Esrolia.
I'm not particular about the year-father faction yet, we can get more specific as time goes one.
I have some ideas that I may post at the weekend to get everyone started, but feel free to comment on the idea or begin submitting your own thoughts.
Eventually it might be nice to produce a description of an 'example' village complete with NPCs maybe short first person narative sections etc. But mainly I think we should concentrate on something that can be dropped into a game and played. Let's figure bigger details from the day-to-day stuff.
Ian Cooper
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