AND the Scorpion-Man Queen, Bane (obviously female), of "The Widow´s Tale"
the gloranthan novel by Penelope Love.
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From: "valkoharja" <rintasaa_at_RphCfF0pi2gN6xVT8AYfDuAgq_jG8ELfNTF8anIDCQ-fKYSyrycQb8m5-e8JYGIa0EC7eB18aM_AgsMWJWOX.yahoo.invalid>
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Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: A quick thought on Scorpion Men
wrote:
>
> --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, "valkoharja" <rintasaa@>
> wrote:
> > Heck, I may end up running with this. Who's to say that the males one
> > sees running around aren't sexless drones anyway, and the way to
> > become a breeder is to become the queen. Seems creepier and more
> alien
> > to me this way.
> >
>
> Well, sure. Who's to say the Queen's human part has to look female?
> Maybe they're scorpion-men because they *are* all men!
Indeed. That's one of the things I've though about. (Then again
Glorantha is all about mythology, and Bagog is always recognized as a
goddess... well... a monster of the female persuasion anyway.)
The only female scorpion man in published Glorantha (that I know of)
is Rana the Scorpion Queen in Lords of Chaos, and she was a human
woman before being devoured and given her new form. Rana looks like a
perfectly nice looking human woman (from the waist up), but that's not
to say that the average scorpion queen has to even be recognizable as
female. I doubt they breastfeed their young or anything like that.
-Adept