[Glorantha] Yina's mother

[Mikko Rintasaari]

> From: donald at grove.demon.co.uk (Donald R. Oddy)
> What magic does her mother have? Maybe her specific ability relates
> to something her mother does well. E.g. if her mother is a weaver
> she can use a ball of thread to trap or entangle prey and enemies.

Her mother was a Yinkini heroquester and minor heroine in the 10w2 range.
She was named Theya and called Dawnsfire for her striking red hair. She
was an explorer (ranger, if you will), traveller, and an experimental
heroquester of some renown. The Winter Rock clan is a splinter clan that
split off the Shadow Cat clan of Harmast Barefoot, so the heroquesting
tradition is strong with them anyway.

Sadly I haven't yet figured out what sort of abilities Theya had, aside
from her being a rather powerful magician and a good swordswoman, both in
the w2 range. Parhaps something to do with the goddess Theya (dawn, light,
fire, inspiration?) if her name was an omen...

I've been wondering about a sort of hypnotizing/paralyzing stare, or
somethign like that. Very useful for a hunter as well as an
outrider/scout.

Another thing I've also been thinking about is the "glowing" eye's of cats
in general (see above about the hypno-stare). Parhaps Theya could have
conjured up the glow from her eyes as a sort of a will-o-wisp, and sent it
out to scout ahead. A bit like a shaman's discorporation, but in the
mortal world and not quite as dangerous to use as the soul doesn't leave
the body.

	-Adept