> Someone (maybe an easy to scapegoat former editor - but I doubt
> that any such person did this solo) made the decision to devote
> 15 pages of Storm Tribe to Vinga, and only 4 pages to Barntar (and 2
> to Maran Gor, despite pages of coolness in harder-to-acquire,
> non-Issaries publications). Esrola is almost a footnote in Thunder
> Rebels at 2.5 pages.
> This attention to Vinga puts her on par with the other major deities
> in Storm Tribe, like the Lightbringers.
Every Lightbringer cult is terribly over-represented in terms of page count vs. population percentage.
> The emphasis on Vinga vs. Esrola (for example) is IMO because
> of the adventure gaming advantages of Vinga, but Vinga
> still has several subcults (not just hero cults),
> which implies many worshippers. Plus, Vinga is how a female
> character gets access to cool Storm feats.
One might say, Vinga is the cheap way to get access to cool Storm feats through cultic practice. HeroQuest challenges are the other way to get that access, and maybe should be the normal way for out-of-the-norm possession of feats. There are formalized challenge quests, e.g. Hill of Gold.
Jeff Richard
> > Ernalda, not Vinga, should be the goddess of Orlanthi
> > feminism - if women can do it, Ernalda can do it.
> I agree. I'd add that a lot of Heler's (another suggested alternative
> to Vinga) feats pale in comparison to the Orlanth's feats.
So should Vinga's, IMnsHO. She has a mythology of her own (retaining some female properties) which has to be missing from Orlanth's "I'm a fertile, juvenile male and willing to prove that" mythology in turn.
IMG Vinga Niskis (perhaps the best parallel to Stu's ELVES) shouldn't happen outside of comic-book/pure-MGF Glorantha (which has its uses - just look at all the twagic durulckz)...
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