Zebra Eiritha Priestess

[pachristian]

Help, please. I remember seeing the name and information about the priestess of Eiritha at Zebra Fort in Pavis in some supplement or another. But for the life of me, I can't find it again.

Does anyone know where that information is found?

[Geoff R Evil]

In Ian Thompson multi volume series there is mention that there are two eirithan priestesses at the fort, but no stats, and there is one vingan with stats who started life an an eirithan lay member. No stats I could find. However Ian’s cult write up of Joraz Kyrem does include some zebra breeding spells if you want to roll a priestess up

[svensson]

And it's your Glorantha anyway.

If you want a couple of Eiritha Zebra women at Zebra Fort, have at it. You certainly don't need OUR permission... 😆

 

[Geoff R Evil]

The zebra tribe does not subscribe to the Praxian  patriarchal matriarchal role split…Pavisites learned long ago anyone with the right skills can be anything. That said Eirithan priestesses have to be women.

[radmonger]

2 hours ago, Geoff R Evil said:

The zebra tribe does not subscribe to the Praxian  patriarchal matriarchal role split…

Is there actually a Zebra Tribe as such to have that role split in the first place? I thought there was just the Pavis Royal Guard? If so, they are not a functionally complete society, one that produces its own food and brings up its own children. But  a warband that defends and is supported by the city. Most of the members of the guard marry Pavis residents, and eat grain from the city granary. So there is no need a mass membership of Eirithat initiates, of any sex. Instead there are just a  few specialist priests, to keep their mounts healthy.

If there is an actual Zebra tribe somewhere, in the past, deep Wastes or (my guess) Pamaltela, I suspect they would have a lot of knowledge of use to any ally or enemy of Pavis.

Edited March 20 by radmonger

[Ian A. Thomson]

3 hours ago, radmonger said:

Is there actually a Zebra Tribe as such to have that role split in the first place?

The Zebra Tribe exists as a local and Praxian force, having reformed from its remnants:

"When Dorasar founded New Pavis he did many marvelous things. Among them, he fulfilled the dream of a friend and reestablished the ancient Zebra tribe in Pavis. As Pavis had a friend among the horsemen, Dorasar had a friend among the zebra men. His name was Olgkarth, and he lived, with his small clan, among the Pol-Joni barbarians." (Pavis book)

In the the P&BRC:DC campaign this built into significant numbers, until "They formed the core of the Pavis Survivors, decimated during the Lunar invasion, but Zebra riders still maintain a holding on the river, giving tithes to the Lunar government and allowing Lunar inspectors to see that they are not re-equipping as the outlawed Survivors."

My take is that they survived Moonbroth in numbers, but apart from a strictly-controlled number allowed to live (in rotation) at the Zebra Pen (Zebra Stockade in my campaign) they were thrown out of Pavis by the Lunars, and disbanded from their official civic status, due to resisting the invasion.

The goal of the Lunars to try and marry Pavis to the Red Goddess means they don't want to totally alienate the Pavis Cult (which was quick to point out during the Treaty negotiations that all Zebra Tribesfolk are Citizens of Pavis by historical precedent). This means in this campaign world that the Zebra Tribe are not persecuted, and are permitted to also have a base out on the edge of Pavis County, and operate patrols there for protective purposes. But they were officially replaced by the PRG in Pavis itself

The most anti-Lunar zebra clans, and those members wanted for specific rebel acts, headed out into the Wastes

The campaign details on the Zebra Tribe are quite extensive and in Vol. 03: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/448641/Pavis-County--Beyond-Secrets-of-the-Borderlands-RuneQuest

Edited March 21 by Ian A. Thomson

[Darius West]

On 3/20/2024 at 2:24 PM, pachristian said:

Help, please. I remember seeing the name and information about the priestess of Eiritha at Zebra Fort in Pavis in some supplement or another. But for the life of me, I can't find it again.

Does anyone know where that information is found?

I had a good long look and came up blank.  I can't even find a write-up of Zebra Fort.  Do you perhaps mean the Raid On Yelorna scenario in The Big Rubble?  If not I think you have that post-Hero Quest sickness called the "Mandela Effect" by some.  If that proves to be the case, please understand that you are in the wrong reality and need to return home asap.   I've been stuck here for years and it only seems to get worse.

Edited March 21 by Darius West

[Joerg]

14 minutes ago, Darius West said:

I had a good long look and came up blank.  I can't even find a write-up of Zebra Fort.  Do you perhaps mean the Raid On Yelorna scenario in The Big Rubble?

I seem to remember a little detail on Zebra Fort in the HQ2 publication "Pavis: Gateway to Adventure" as I was using that (rather sparse) info for a RQ game.

Hargran the Dirty was in charge of the fort in both official treatments of the Rubble, and while IMG some of the decent Zebra Tribe folk remained in the fort, others distanced themselves from his blatant banditry. Still, IMG he managed to receive an Eirithan contract wife from the nomadic Zebra Folk as one of his wives.

Edited March 21 by Joerg
almost missed the point about Eiritha

[pachristian]

On 3/20/2024 at 11:37 AM, Geoff R Evil said:

In Ian Thompson multi volume series there is mention that there are two eirithan priestesses at the fort, but no stats, and there is one vingan with stats who started life an an eirithan lay member. No stats I could find. However Ian’s cult write up of Joraz Kyrem does include some zebra breeding spells if you want to roll a priestess up

I think this is what I was looking for. Let me dig into it again.

I am specifically looking at Zebra Fort, not Zebra Tribe.

[g33k]

On 3/20/2024 at 2:40 PM, radmonger said:

Is there actually a Zebra Tribe as such to have that role split in the first place? I thought there was just the Pavis Royal Guard? If so, they are not a functionally complete society, one that produces its own food and brings up its own children. But  a warband that defends and is supported by the city. Most of the members of the guard marry Pavis residents, and eat grain from the city granary. So there is no need a mass membership of Eirithat initiates, of any sex. Instead there are just a  few specialist priests, to keep their mounts healthy.

If there is an actual Zebra tribe somewhere, in the past, deep Wastes or (my guess) Pamaltela, I suspect they would have a lot of knowledge of use to any ally or enemy of Pavis.

The "Zebra Tribe" has been a Praxian "minor Tribe" (along with ostrich, bolo-lizard, unicorn, rhino, etc) since at least the RQ2 / Cults of Prax days.

I think they're pretty tightly-linked to the Pavis Royal Guard &c... that patronage may be part of what keeps them going (royal treasury buying them better arms & armor, extra food stuff & fodder in lean times, etc).