[Glorantha] Re: Gunda the Guilty

[Topi Pitkänen]

> >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).

I have a memory of Genertela: The Crucible of the Hero Wars to mention
Harrek to have met Lord Death On A Horse once quite early in his career.
It was said that maybe Harrek could have ended it all there and then...
but he didn't kill (!) Lord Death On A Horse. I wonder if this occasion 
could have been where Harrek and Gunda met?

Anyway it makes a hell of a story to be told over a beer, "Why Is That
Dread Wolf Woman Called Guilty". It's her fault the Black Kingdom!

-Topi



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