[Glorantha] Re: Gunda, War, Guilt

[Malk Williams]

Gunda:

OK, so she's a girl.  Sorry, I'd never even heard of the lass, and to me,
"Gunda" doesn't counjure an image of a blond (or red-head) Valkyrie warrior
maiden with breasts you could ski down.  It sounds too much like Gunter, a
name that I associate with a particularly obnoxious technical writer I once
worked with!

Gunda's Guilt Spear (if it exists):

Now that's a hell of a concept.  It must be a hell of a spear, or what sort
of person would use it?  I mean something with those properties is something
that most people would be reluctant to use at all, still less on their
enemies, unless they either already felt so consumed by guilt that they felt
they deserved everyone else's as well, or had an almost Christ-like
compulsion to take the sins/crimes/burdens of others upon themselves.
I wonder if her own feelings of guilt over either the killing of the Queen
of Zoria - whom presumably she loved, albeit under compulsion, or over the
Black Kingdom - if that theory holds water - would be enough to take on such
a weapon, or did she have it even before then?
Of course she could just be "the Guilty" because it alliterates well, and
the name was applied as invective to her by a faction who had got on the
wrong side of Harrek and friends.

Cheers -

Malk.