[Glorantha] Re: Gunda, War, Guilt

[Topi Pitkänen]

>> :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!

Mikko: 
> She's called "the Guilty" because of her spear. The spear is supposed to
> clense the soul of anybody it kills, and heap the sins on the owner of
> the spear. It's been described as a sort of "anti Stormbringer" weapon.

I remember Sandy Petersen posted RQ-stats for Gunda The Guilty on the
digest eons ago. (Expression 'Eons Ago' Becomes The Only Old One :)
Yes. That, I think, was the first time I learned about Gunda's Spear.
Great, that you made me remember, the concept is suberb.

> Oh! And as a personal opinion, Gunda the archetypical valkyrie is
> obviously a scandinavian looking blue-eyed blonde...

It seems that you and Nick Brooke think alike sometimes. ;-)

Peter:
> As for Gunda, the Genertela Book implies that Harrek was alone
> when he left Rathorela and encountered Lord Death on a Horse.
> If Harrek met Gunda here, she would have had to be in the raiding
> party.  Now I don't know much about Gunda's character but guilt
> over being in the Kingdom of War does seem a bit too much.

Thanks for sharing your take on that occult "raiding party" incident.
It draws some scetches to parts of my Glorantha that are still pretty
much 'tabula rasa' for me. I liked the tone.

I think my idea for a story where Gunda the Guilty is guilty for Harrek
letting Kingdom Of War to live is something I personally am fond of.

1. It is a LIE. It's a story.
2. Told where-ever both Kingdom Of War and the famous Wolf Pirates
   are known by name and fame. (Sacked&burned Sogolotha does great.)
3. It is assumed that Harrek meeting Lord Death On A Horse is known
   fact, or at least reputed to have taken place, among common folk.  
4. It is blasphemous story, reveling in horrors and atrocities of both
   Kingdom of War and Harrek The Berserk. Gunda is portrayed in sexist
   light and blamed for stopping Harrek to kill Lord Death On A Horse.
5. I think the story represents the social effects that Gunda bears for
   accumulating the sins of the people she kills with her Valkyrie Spear.
6. The story has some moral to prepare people for the coming wartimes.


"There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one
 says from bearing any resemblancce to what one has in mind."
- Marcel Proust, Rememberance of Things Past -