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@Super Thunder Bros. : You may find my description of an adulthood initiation in a Sartarite clan useful. This whole thread contains some good ideas on the topic, by the way.

I see this initiation time a little differently. These boys, who are no longer children and not yet adults, experience the frontier during their adulthood initiation. The physical frontier of the clan or tribe: this is where they set up camp and live most of the time. The frontier of humans and gods. The frontier of law and illegality. They're not outside the law, in my opinion, but on its edge. They must learn to respect the common law, while being given the freedom to transgress it. Savagery and violence are what they must resist to become full adults, to become truly Orlanthi.

You could also make your request on the Chaosium Discord. There is a 'LFG Glorantha-RQ-HQ' channel.

Any Chaos' god fits well. Why not Malia ? She certainly has Spirits of Disease under her command, who can infect crops, poison men and women and make them sick or sterile.

Or, alternatively, ritual is the alphabet, heroquesting is the sentence ? (And the sentence must obey the syntax, use the proper words, as they should be written, but inevitably introduces variation and invention, however slight, into these constraints.) I like your analogy, anyway.

Yes, I've thought about that. And I thought we could imagine some sort of family burial vaults for most people, and individual burial vaults only for those most important to the clan or tribe.

A very interesting question. I'd never thought about it. I would have said that there is a difference in funeral practices depending on whether the person was a follower of Orlanth (and his associates) or Ernalda (and her associates): the corpse of the former is burned, the corpse of the latter is interred. For the former, part of the ashes are collected in an urn. This urn may itself be kept in the family's home or buried in its stead. Or it may be kept or buried in a place shared by the clan. For Ernalda's initiates and associates, the corpse is laid to rest in a deep burial chamber beneath Ernalda's temple. I imagine that Ernalda's temples always (or almost always) have basements.

Could we add to this list brandys, liquors and other fruit alcohols, made from apples (like Calvados), pears, plums, etc.? Do distillation techniques exist in this part of the world? At first glance, it seems a Mostali thing.

Then something like cuisine of the West Indies would be just right.

What an enthusiastic presentation! And... I want the postcards too! 😁

The Red Cow Fort may surely be the most suitable for your purpose. And why not stone walls ?

It's in the Adventures book of the Starter Pack.

If I were them, I'd refuse. It would waste too much of their time. And administration being administration, they might get the reply: "This person has not been assigned to our services, please contact the military command in Pavis." 😁

If compared, it would be with a Sartarite town : cities are bigger. In Sartar, the smallest may be Alone, 1200 inhabitants. The only town* description I can remember is Red Cow Fort (600 inhabitants) in the Red Cow campaign (vol. I, The Coming Storm, p. 21-28). Details, maps and plans I know are for villages, hamlets (Apple Lane, Mernyr's landing) or cities (Jonstown, Clearwine). *: Oh, there is Runegate too (900 inhabitants), in the GM Screen Pack, p. 65. I'd say crossbows are only known and handled by (some) dwarves (and by Leonardo in the God Forgot isles, for sure 🙂).

As g33k, I emailed the retailer. I received the pdf by email.