[Glorantha] Re: Glorantha Digest, Vol 12, Issue 66

[Mikko Rintasaari]

> 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.
>
> The Spear is Sandy's rationalization of why she is Guilty.  Personally I
> think she is Guilty because of the circumstances of her birth and her
> murder of the Queen of the Kiss rather than any weapon she carries.
>
> --Peter Metcalfe

Right. I was wondering abou the source of that. Still, it can be both. The
spear does sound like a proper "doomed heroine" weapon.

> Rob:
> Well Mikko, some of us prefer redheads, so I prefer the GV version! Of
> course, YGMV! :^D
>
>   Regards
>   Rob

Nothing wrong with redheads, but we already have Jareel and Kallyr.

> > 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. ;-)

Heh :D

Now if I could only get him to post the lyrics for that song about the
Upland Marsh ducks playing football without their trousers on...

> 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.

Hmm... I wonder. We still don't know what a Valkyrie is in the Gloranthan
context. Parhaps they are mostly found in the obscure Boristi faith, and
Gunda's spear is indeed a Valkyrie spear? Parhaps _the_ valkyrie spear.

	-Adept