While Elmal is a loyal member of the Storm Tribe, there are ways in which his morality still shows his Fire Tribe roots.
In particular, his dislike of deceit (while Elmal has some powers to fight deception, Orlanth of course is on occasion quite fond of it) and his more conservative take on morality, including sexual morality. I suspect Elmali are less likely to favour the more transient and less committed forms of Orlanthi marriage, favouring steadfastness and commitment.
Though, you know, Elmal is married to a horse, so his sexual conservatism might be considered a little hypocritical by some...
Cheers
David
On 01/06/2012, at 6:55 AM, Mike wrote:
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>> --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, "Daniel" <von_das@> wrote:
>>> Also, is there a mythic reason for the hostility
>>> between Heler and Elmal outside of the wooing of
>>> Esrola?
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>> Elmal is a straight-up, honest, loyal guy.
>> Heler is a sexually ambiguous figure: she has been with Orlanth (when she appeared as Helera) and with Esrola (when he was a he) and possibly, after Orlanth went away, he dallied with Ernalda.
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>> Charles
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> Or to put it another way, using Glee as an example, Elmal is the "jock" who always picks on the gay guy because he is actually stuck in the closet himself!! ;)
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