Off on holiday for a week later so will disappear off the radar.
Keep the cool ideas coming tho!
Regards
Rob
- In whitewall_at_yahoogroups.com, "Jane Williams"
<janewilliams20_at_y...> wrote:
> > > But she's a Mastakos specialist. For this, we need a Defender
Wind
> > > specialist.
> >
> > Yeah, but like you say, its a stand alone feat, and one of her
Godyr
> > might be the one who does the summoning perhaps?
>
> It's being taught as a stand-alone feat, because it's being taught
to
> people with no Defender Wind affinity. The person teaching it most
> definitely does have a Defender Wind affinity, and for her this is
just
> one of many DW feats she knows.
>
> By all means have her from Tarthcaer if that works for you, and by
all
> means one of Tarose's allys/friends/followers whatever. Just as
long as
> she's free to come down to Whitewall and help.
>
> > The defender storm
> > generally appears naturally in Earth Season. Early or late. The
> > bat arrives in Disorder week of Dark Season. Thats the first
week
> > of dark season, so maybe she comes late?
>
> We said from the start that we're trying to use Defender Wind out
of
> season here, so don't worry about it.
>
> I've been looking for Defender Wind myths, either where Vinga uses
her
> Defender Wind (in any way) or the one where she gains it. The main
> write-up has two fragments: she takes Jiril's powers from him on
p167 of
> TS, and uses them against Valind on p168.
>
> It occurs to me that there's also a DW mention in that last rather
> tongue-in-cheek story I wrote,
> http://www.jane-williams.me.uk/glorantha/stories/tarthcaer.cfm
> and since that's all about the founding of Tarthcaer, it *may* be
more
> suitable for Rob. Just re-write the line "She threw her own
Defender
> winds at him" to be a bit more specific. In fact, rewrite the whole
> thing to be a bit more serious... But you've got a proto-HQ there,
with
> easily defined stations. The intended main reward is a hill-fort,
not a
> DW feat, but it's useable. They'd all learn how to find Tarthcaer
again
> as a main/side effect if they didn't already know, which may well
be a
> good thing. And if Rob needs something in a hurry, this is a quick
> answer.
>
> For more general purposes, though, if we're turning this into a
> scenario-let for general use, I'd like a more suitable myth. And
I'm
> unsure if that myth should show Vinga *using* DW to blow things
away, or
> show how she *learnt* to blow things away. My thoughts at present
are
> tending towards a dust storm or perhaps a plague of insects, which
her
> mother and sisters are trying to sort out with a broom.