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Personally, I'd like to see more setting or character material. I am a weird woman, and I want to see more things that focus on 'not heroing', or rather heroing, and cool stuff, that might not involve fighting. Cycle of the year, the life of a clan, its trials and tribulations, but in the Tula and abroad, but not nessacerily the active HEROWARS conflict. Not everyone can be Agrath or Jar-eel. What is Myrda - the Fordwife doing? (I literally just made that up, but I wanna know). What is she doing for her ,friends and neighbors, what about the clan's Tula and those strangers who have moved the next valley over, their ways are strange, but her daughter has taken a liking to one of them foreigner girls. What about those things? what about the animals in the care of the stead or, the local spirits? The clan has come apart , the wyter is gone, and someone needs to do SOMETHING!. Those are things that I wanna see, hearth- and-home...

Aww so they won't be available ever again. . ? *Sigh*

Does this exend to things like Thunder rebels and Storm Tribe ( getting rebranded?)

Excellent points: I tried it once, and honestly the system, just feels clunking. The way its written makes it hard to keep the flow up: Ex ( from a game I played)- We were going from one ship to another (boarding essentially) and the system just felt awkard. I've only played one game of it with 6 players (as a 6th), but I found that making the decla4rations and scenes were trickier to get people on board with ( and this was someone who enjoyed Fate games)

So, I love the world, but not so much the system, anyone have suggestions?

Thanks @Rick Meints That cleared that up. I thought I'd missed something.

Oh no. I backed, that's why I am confused. I realized that Secret Society came out (to the public), but then I realized I didn't get an DT rpg-link for it via backerkit so I am more or less confused. But I know that John Wick Presents, allowed Chaosium to publish the rest of them.

No sexual dimorphism? So they're all a standard height and weight? No curvy little inn-keeper matron ladies, or taller slender more Gal Gadot esque ladies? No middle sized women with round mid-sections, and arms that can potentially lift stuck calves and herd onry goats? None of that variety and diversity? I don't know what I'd do if my character's biological sister wasn't her visual polar opposite . Where as Elham is tall (like nearly 5'7), and very brown skinned with dark black very very curly (like afro hair), with green eyes. Her sister is a little less intense looking and sports more typical orlanthi brown hair, longer, and more broad shouldered. Interesting.

Ok as much as I love the world of Theah, (omg the 2nd edition books are marvelous), I don't enjoy the system as much, but does anyone know whats going on with the kickstarter fufillment via backerkit? It seems Secret Societies is out ( and while its in my backerkit) there's no Drivethru link for it? Anyone else experience this? Alsoi I am super excited for Vactine City and... The New World book.

Ok Content Warning: for talk of biological female anatomy and magic. https://www.thewhoresofyore.com/sex-history/powerful-women-and-magical-vaginas-by-heini-sofia-alavuo I now cannot un see the idea of an Ernalda n woman climbing attoping the barn where winter cattle are completely nude just before the end of sacred time and the men of the town shooting the cattle out... Bad ass..

That is an excellent point. Maybe that's something to be considered. Adoption is highly likely in a world where community ties mean life or death. My little personal clan's existance owes to this: Lunar, Orlanthi/Esrolian, Grazelander, the tribe forms because a bunch of unattached women come together. Some are mothers, others are warriors, still others are herds and keepers of hearth. Why must women being 'unmarried ' be unnatural? Though it does bring up the whole Matrilocal and patrilocal concept , if you are an outsider who becomes your new family and where do you live?

Exactly. I feel like I'll need to try and write both mythos and stories for this. My tribe has this going for it: the girl-woman(?) who leads them to their Tula is (most likely going to be an intiate of Ernalda. Though this does make me wonder if Ernaldans, Chalana Arroys, Issaries, Dendara(?) those types of societal roles are just as important. Holding the community together, binding and trying to keep people for doing violence There is always another way." for a reason.

Thanks for that vote of confidence. Though this does spark my interest:https://andrewloganmontgomery.blogspot.com/2021/10/sex-gender-and-orlanthi-running-riddle.html

If you have not heard Tolkien's the Lay of Beren and Luthien, I present this to you: If you have--- then great, anyone got any other Glorantha Love stories, that are not Orlanth wooing Ernalda? I realize this is a weird thought, but in riffing on my Women in Glorantha thread and the more 'at home stuff', it made me starting thinking about things in the culture that we don't think about that often. We know Gloranthan courtship has a few steps, and ids distinct from just going for a roll in hay. So we're Looking at Glorantha cool love stories and courtship rituals: Redala & Elmal What of Yelm and Dendara?

I like the idea of of the tattoos being applied magically (broad strokes perhaps are applied(and visible if a magical ritual going on) but to have them show on skin they must be applied manually