>
> Donald
>
> >The Wenelians are a hunter gatherer variation on the Orlanthi as
> >their grain goddess is weak because of the experiments of the
> >godlearners so women haven't the balancing power that they have
> >in Dragon Pass.
>
> In most real-world hunter-gatherer cultures, women bring in most of
> the food. Men bring in higher-status food. (I don't recall that Blood
> Over Gold gets into this much detail on the Wenelians.)
> --
>
> David Dunham
> Glorantha/HQ/RQ page: www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha.html
>
And saying that the Wenelians are hunter gatherers is very much
overstating the case. If anything, I felt they were something like
"Orlanthi by way of the Iroquois" but with a strong riff on the
Balkans. I suspect there's a strong matriarchal bent to many of the
clans. There is far more cultural variance among the Wenelians than
found among the Heortlings, Esrolians, or (I suspect) the Ralians.
Wenelia is filled with lots of little remnant cultures reduced to a
few clans and that one one last valley that is all that remains of
their once hugely important and self-evidently wonderful folk.
Personally, I think its a nasty place and needs some serious
Lightbringer action, a resurgence and rethinking of the Trader Princes
and their role, or some revival in kingship practices.
Jeff