Griffin Island

[smiorgan]

Hi All,

There is a nice bit of Griffin Mountain/ Island in the new Cults book - under disguise...

The generic Fire Spirit Cult is clearly inspired by the cult of Firshala in Griffin Mountain/Island. Just look at the history of the Cult...

"The spirit was a major fire spirit who danced in the
wilds during the dream time. Worshipped as a minor
goddess by the hunter-gatherer tribes, she was trapped
between two hilltop monoliths when the darkness came
and remained entombed until awoken by the new sun
when she was awoken by heroes who inadvertently
completed her quests and freed her."

The players in my Griffin Mountain campaign are Firshala cultists - so I have an excuse to buy the book!

Smiorgan

 

[dougiepunk]

I don't recall the specifics of Gonn Orta's birth, but I do seem to remeber hin being a "young" giant

Anaxial's Roster p150 "Gonn Orta is an ancient and well known true giant. He was born in the Godtime in the Rockwood mountains. During the Darkness he travelled in Fronela and Ralios, usually with Mostali. In the First Age he lived in Fronela, then only thinly populated by men. At the end of the First Age, he assisted the Mostali in their fight against Gbaji."

Dougie

 

[duncan_disorderly]

I don't recall the specifics of Gonn Orta's birth, but I do seem to remeber hin being a "young" giant

Anaxial's Roster p150 "Gonn Orta is an ancient and well known true giant. He was born in the Godtime in the Rockwood mountains..."

OK, "young" might be a relative term here...

 

[nellist]

I used the Giant babies coming down the Cradle river in 2nd Age Pavis. The Godlearners had robbed too many Cradles, so the Giants stopped sending them. When Pavis came, he was friendly to the Giants, but also created a new world within the walls of Paragua. This "created' a new Giant, but without the aid of the Elder Giants. The Player characters needed to go to the Boatshed, build a cradle with Mountain giant help, then bring it down the river. The boat had giant ants instead of Piglings, a large plant with aphids instead of a giant pig and other changes. Anyway, the baby successfully made it to hell, and Thog, for it was he, was raised in the underworld. He later came to the surface to claim his birthright (Paraguas walls)

 

[Loz]

There is a nice bit of Griffin Mountain/ Island in the new Cults book - under disguise...

The generic Fire Spirit Cult is clearly inspired by the cult of Firshala in Griffin Mountain/Island. Just look at the history of the Cult...

Well spotted, Smiorgan! I've had tons of fun with Firshala in my own GM campaign and wanted to pay her some homage in the Guilds and Cults book.

 

[nellist]

"Know, O prince, that before the years when the Oceans Closed and the Syndics Ban, and in the years of the rise of the Kingdom of Loskalm, there was a wilderland undreamed of, when tribes of beastmen wandered across the world like herds beneath the stars -- Pralori, Owl, Badger, Wolverine, Skunk with their dark-haired women and powers of smell-tainted misery, Rathorela with its bearfolk, Tawari that grazed on the pastoral meadows of the Janube, Bobcat in the shadows of the mountains, Galinini whose riders wore bronze and gold. But the proudest kingdom was Akem, reigning supreme in the dreaming west. Hither came Gonn Orta, the Giant, black-haired, sullen-eyed, club in hand, a dwarf friend, a roamer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic girth, to tread the Wilderlands of Fronela under his massive feet."