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<mailto:46A68115.2000809%40glorantha.com>> Greg Stafford writes:
>
> >As for me, well, I am genuinely surprised that anyone familiar with the
> >published material thinks that Ernaldan women would be anything other
> >than savage defenders of hearth and home. Professional warriors? Nope.
> >Experienced and competent? Probably not. But willing, able and going to
> >make the effort--of course!
>
> If you look at Thunder Rebels though the cultural assumptions of
> modern Europe and the US And there is the rub. I have always assumed
that the average HQ player would know better than to project modern
European/US mores onto an ancient society. I had just assumed that we
were better educated and informed than that. This mistaken assumption of
mine accounts for a lot of the heat that my comments often generate from
this list.
> >Dara Happan noble women? Probbly screamie meemies, sure.
>
> Even there I think there's a limit. Push Dendara too far and
> her sister Gorgorma appears.
Yes, but it is Gorgorma, not Dendara.
And I’m note that I’m not including all those Orian women here.
-GS
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