Hi Jeff, ... Yeah it is a great site, very well researched and lots of really good information for adding some 'color' to an Orlanthi game. I've used her site...
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Another month, another update. As winter rolls in, Helamakt, the Fighting Storm, is showcased at http://www.cafeshops.com/orlanthi, while Orngerin Cloudcape...
Being german and not familiar with all details of the english language, I'd like to ask if somebody can help me with the meaning of the word 'GALLT', which is...
Aha, you're entering the deep wilds of John Hughes country now! He variously translated 'the gors and the gallt' as 'forest and marsh' and 'forest and waste' -...
I'm assuming that at least some Yinkini enter "normal" marriages (i.e. more than the 9 day alynx marriage). Maybe this is a bad assumption? If it is true, do...
'Gors and gallt' started as my campaign term to describe the unique wilderness of the Far Place - mysterious and magical expanses of wild mystery where the...
Next question. Do Nandans marry? I guess they would, if they find a proper husband. But will a male Hoertling marry a person nobody of his friends regards as a...
... wild ... supreme. ... marshy ... 'forest ... Wild ... A few days back fokls were asking about the origin of 'tula' - I think its welsh too. Its used to...
Gonna open the gender box again? Please remember that the Heortlings have standards unlike those of modern Western culture. ... Actually, if you check Storm...
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up the yinkiny ( borin ) ... From: bethexton To: HeroWars@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 2:44 PM Subject: [HeroWars] Yinkini, marriage, and...
If it is true, do the Yinkini get some leeway on the usually very strict adultery rules of Orlanthi society? I'd assume that they can't go around bedding...
Certainly they can. And of course, if they get beaten flat as a rug, they really don't anyone else to blame. That's the downside of freedom. You have to pay...
... rug, ... Beaten flat as a rug goes with the territory, natch. But really what I'm wondering is can a married yinkini have relations with other women, in...
... If a mating is mandatory by Yinkini religious dictates, then it isn't Adultery, it's just plain ol' Sex. It's the old "My God made me do it" defense, which...
... In the (IMHO) unlikely event that a Yinkini did get married I would have thought that Yinkin would do nothing for adultery. But they - and the community -...
Thanks for your answers, I really appreciate it and so will my players! things are much clearer now, luckily I hadn't introduced those 'thorny bushes'...
... Yes. Note that in ceremonial or otherworldly contexts the nature of the marrige bond may be stretched. ... Greg Stafford, greg@... Issaries, Inc....
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... Close... I think you are thinking of Gorse from http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/pubs/interest/gorse/gorse.htm "What is gorse? Gorse is a dense, spiny, dull...
Since no one complained too strongly... The song of the Waha tribesman inexorably drawn by the Temptations of the Storm Bull. CAN'T KILL ALL THE BROO Waha!... ...
... In French, I translate gallt as "terre gaste", although that's more medieval than gaulish. One suitable Gloranthan variation could be "gashland" ... ;-) ...
... Of course ... ... Actually, in many cases a suitable wife could be just as good : a very mannish heterosexual woman for instance. Some kinds of Vingans, or...
... Gashland certainly works for the Northern gors - the troll lands of the heroes Gash & Gor. And to be honest, I'd never made the 'gorse' connection....
... the ... is a ... You've have remembered if you'd 'connected' with any gorse. The stuff is the devil's weed, I tell you. Got to run into enough of it as a ...
It was bloody hot at the funeral. If you believed those scimitar and seduction stories that are so popular back in Glamour it should have been raining. You...
Bryan ... The event in KoDP has to deal with harboring accused adulterers, which would be more harmful to the community than entirely secret dalliances. For...
