[Glorantha] Gunda and Zoria

[Malk Williams]

Thanks Peter,  your encyclopaedic knowledge of Gloranthan minutiae serves me
well once again!

Cheers -

Malk.

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On Behalf Of Peter Metcalfe
Sent: 18 February 2006 10:51
To: glorantha at rpglist.org
Subject: [Glorantha] Gunda and Zoria

Malk Williams

> >Besides the Gunda The Guilty incident mentioned in a previous
> >response,

>Who is Gunda the Guilty,

Gunda the Guilty is a valkyrie from Fronela and famous as being
Harrek's best friend.

>and why did he break the Queen (Nesselina?) of Zoria's
>back?

To free herself from the thralldom caused by the kiss of the Queen
of the Kiss.  The aftereffect was that she can never know love.

>When did he do it, and did it kill her?

She did it before meeting up with Harrek.  When it took place is
unknown but it can not be earlier than 1599 ST when Zoria was
released from the Ban.

_If_ she's the woman who Bituarian Varosch met in Corflu, then she
would have joined the Wolf Pirates in their original migration of 1606
ST.  As a result, the death of the Queen would have taken place
before 1605 ST.

However there is the confliuct known as the Greenleaf Rebellion
in 1614 ST against Loskalm.  Since Gunda's father was said
to have been a cruel philosopher, she could have issues about
Loskalm and so participated in that.  If so, she would have met
Harrek when he was sacking Sog City (in 1615 ST) or in the
Ygg's Isles (1617 ST).

>DW> Lord Death On a Horse (the leader of the Kingdom Of War) is visited by
> > a Queen of Zoria, to be bedded and bred by him.

Just to be clear, this isn't canonical.  A certain chaosium manuscript does
have this idea which did get used in the How the West was One freeform
but there are other origins for the Kingdom of War

>So what sort of reputation does Zoria have in the world outside?

It depends on who you talk to.  Bad reputations are much more interesting
than good reputations.   The love slaves of the Queen of the Kiss indicate
that Zoria's reputation is low outside Zoria.

>Orlanthi carls drooling misty eyed into their beer,

Zoria's far too far away from Heortland to be known there.  The nearest
storm worshippers are most likely the Vadrudi and their society is more
violent.

>Do they speak of it in Prax or even Pent?

Zoria is a place known only in and around Fronela.  It might be known
in Traveller's Tales and Erotica in Ralios and the Lunar Empire but beyond
that, it would be unknown.

--Peter Metcalfe

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