Ironwall

44 minutes ago, svensson said:

In my mind, this tends to militate against the use of Waha-tradition justifications for Agimori using dogs.

However they do worship Foundchild who is associated with brother dog. So dogs could have a mystic justification for a dog presence among the Agimori. 

They could use dogs as camp guardians.

If Jomes Wulf is no longer around who protects Wulfsland. unprotected land is gonna be siezed by someone whether its the Telmori, Cinsina, Torkani, Dinacoli or Maboder survivors is the main question.

In the Smoking Ruins book you meet a Grazelander woman who worships Polaris, Yelmalio would probably be a good idea. I also imagine a lot of cults in the grazelands are probably Spirit cults which can mean any number of fire spirits would allow your Yu-Kargazant membership.

8 hours ago, Sir_Godspeed said:

On another note, while Thed and Ragnaglar are associated with goats, it also seems like Ragnaglar may be associated with antlered animals like elks, moose and reindeer? This pops up in the Six Ages video game, and in his model for the Gods War tabletop game. I'm not sure what the basis of this is, but I'm interested to hear if anyone knows anything more.

Isn't the animal associated with Ragnlagar different depending on region? I could have sworn seeing that somewhere. Like praxians think he's a sheep, heortling a Goat, pelorian an antelope. 

Thanks for the answers theyve helped a lot but now i have another question. Where does Ehilm and Galanin fit into the ralian orlanthi pantheon. I take it they are local variants/replacements of Yelm and Yelmalio. There is also an extinct sundome if I remember correctly is the more mainstream Yelmalio cult still in Ralios?

So where do the Ralian Orlanthi come from Mythically. Additionally what are the religious and cultural differences from the more known Heortling Orlanthi.

So are potatoes the new Elmal-Yelmalio discussion 

On 12/11/2023 at 10:11 AM, hasevir said:

sry wrong thread, please no eat trollkin

No promises 

3 hours ago, Orlanthatemyhamster said:

I'm not sure why it would be associated with Orlanth at all, I would have her associated with Shafesora, the rain goddess of Peloria instead and Entekos, gentle wind god of the Yelm pantheon. Wrong side of the mountains for Orlanth.

Perhaps there are some Tarshite myths we have yet to hear. 

Thanks for the explanations 

14 hours ago, Akhôrahil said:

Boristi reasonably argue that you shouldn't love Chaos, and therefore feel free - no, duty-bound! - to tap it (this has side effects, as one would expect)

What are the side effects? I've always wondered why tapping chaos would be considered immoral 

The various names are likely gonna be descriptive, titles, nick names, assumed identities, individual portions of the diety who needs thier own name to differentiate themselves from the whole diety, or even just the way one languages pronunciation works

Plus a diety may not likely care what mortals call them so long as it's respectful 

5 hours ago, Martin said:

but the Cyanea are now extinct, wiped out by an alliance of the other great families in the “War of the Flowers.”

Wasn't expecting that sprites and pixies are a lot less innocent than I thought. 

2 hours ago, Godlearner said:

Then you do not need this skill since you will never be on one.

When called up for service in the militia the king/priest/cult could than let you borrow one of there's. I see why some people don't see a point to kuschile archery in an army but it's offers similar effects as a true horse archer ( without needing the same level of horse infrastructure to train a warrior (or militia man) it definitely isn't as good as a proper horse archer but it's better than no horse archery 

6 hours ago, Leingod said:

It's also a little odd, to me, that the Aldryami are generally portrayed as overall indifferent to animal life, despite the critical role so many different animals play in a forest ecosystem, and how many of them have strong effects on the health of the trees the Aldryami spend their lives tending and protecting. I wonder if that's maybe a reflection of Glorantha's age as a setting, that it was made before many of us really interalized just how interconnected and interdependent something like a forest is, instead imagining the trees as existing somehow independently of all the myriad things that live and die around them.

I believe a small amount of a small amount of elves worship eiritha. (I believe Jeff posted elf cult membership somewhere I'd have to find it) this could be the elves in charge of the herds of large animals such as deer, Bison, ect for the the forests benefit. 

Alternatively Aldryami may use animals spirits to maintain animal population at levels beneficial to the trees 

On 6/25/2023 at 9:10 PM, Leingod said:

except that becoming Rams apparently cost us our goats. The goat-loving advisors were always my favorite, and I'm quite fond of goats myself.

Please tell me we at least get sheep loving advisors 

1 hour ago, Qizilbashwoman said:

Nobody needs 18 children to ensure some survive, and women don't suffer and die.

I must point out they still harvest by hand, not to mention all the small tasks that are still important in a agrarian bronze age society that need to be done. Families are likely larger than an average family in a modern industrial society by a decent margin. Also considering that most women are in the ernalda cult thiers is probably a social and religious pressure to have large families.

On 6/8/2023 at 4:59 AM, Akhôrahil said:

Completely legit question - there's essentially no reason why every pregnancy wouldn't be Blessed with at least 3 points. More babies is not a good idea at most times - the clan is probably already at carrying capacity with regards to food - but fewer pregnancies (I assume Ernaldans can control fertility) with healthier and more powerful babies seems like a no-brainer from a game perspective. Nobles should by every reason shop around for even larger Bless Pregnancy spells - it's a solid investment in their offspring. 5-10 points should be quite achievable. My PCs obviously drop the biggest Bless Pregnancy they can find every time it comes up - it's a no-brainer in case the campaign lasts very long and the kids can be promoted into PCs. 

Although perhaps Bless Pregnancy explains the free points of characteristics PCs get during chargen..

Considering magic used for fields like rain, cloud clear bless fields, etc the carrying capacity of the land is likely (in most years) well above what it would normally be. Sartarite clans may actual have a lot of extra food for a high growth. And considering most things will still be done by hand having more children ie more farmhands is a really good idea

3 hours ago, metcalph said:

I think Hyalor is about capturing wild horses rather than breeding and riding them.  Command Horse seems to me a rather pointless spell otherwise.

I would imagine training already domestic horses is still in his domain

so my players clan are descendants of the Berennethtelli and are a clan of Accomplished horse breeders and i want to dive into that portion of the clans structure in some future adventures mainly through the cults of the horse goddess, and Hyalor but I have to ask about what a Hyalor cult would look like i imagine command horse as a rune spell but anything else? 

48 minutes ago, Squaredeal Sten said:

According to the guide the Vendref are not allowed tohave weapons.  How do Humakti function without a sword?

Exemptions granted to specific people. 

6 hours ago, hasevir said:

grandfather mortal.

That guy really got around makes you wonder what was going on in his head.

The way I've dealt with this is a direct ancestor can always be summoned. However someone can count as an ancestor and be summoned if they are A: share ancestry with one of your direct ancestors ie: grand uncle Bobatar or 23 times great aunt Suesena however they must also be B: had been a member of the same clan. 

Let me just give a little edit to explain my reasoning. In my view ancestors can be an individual ancestor or a communal "our ancestors" if a clan worships a hero as an ancestor than the hero becomes the spiritual ancestor of everyone in said clan regardless of whose actually directly descended from said hero.

This is great news, this is what got me into glorantha so I can't wait to continue the journey.