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So good, it had to be said twice. Some people, me included, post first and then read comments afterwards.

Probably, yes. Life - Death - Undead for those Aldryami brought back. Some cultures have souls that are reborn. I think Uz do, but I am not sure. I remember reading that souls wait in the Otherworld until they are reborn.

Only if they could show descent, through the male line, from Yelm. Also, they need to be descended from Yelm. However, that isn't a problem as Grazelanders are usually descended from Yelm. Yelmalio is worshipped when they want a sun god like Yelm that anyone can join. I would say yes, but not perhaps for the reason you think. Elmal might not have been at the Hill of Gold, or he might have been, depending on your mythology. However, Elmali performing the Hill of Gold HeroQuest as Yelmalio gain the same benefits as Yelmalians do and have the same risks. If they win the encounter with Zorak Zoran, they gain some Fire Magic, or at least gain the ability to use Fire Magic. If they lose against Zorak Zoran, they lose all Fire Magic and the ability to use Fire Magic. I would also say that they lose the Fire/Sky rune completely.

I didn't say it was easy!

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Yes, of course, they are living, after all. I have them mating with Elves and producing a seed that is planted. Alternatively, a dryad could just spontaneously appear in a tree, in effect awakening the tree. Probably just a Lhankor Mhy Temple Guardian spirit. Perhaps the wyter just takes the form of the library itself, or is just a random collection of books, or a face appearing in a book, or a ghostly librarian, or a ghostly orangutan.

Oh, I forgot that, thanks.

Who is supposed to get such references Just got Joerg's joke, little slow today. Bolded for those as slow as me ...

In practice, people normally have some kind of armour. Having played someone without a damage bonus and someone with a damage bonus, we much preferred with a damage bonus. If we had spare capacity for STR that gave the chance of a damage bonus in future we generally tried to train up STR to get that damage bonus. If not, we cast Strength to boost STR to get the damage bonus.

That is really useful, thanks

Maybe that's where Eurmal and Humakt went when they entered the Underworld in search of Death.

Orlanth was feeling tired but couldn't get to sleep. He tried fighting all his thanes to tire himself out, but that didn't work. He blew himself across to all the mountains and back, but that didn't work. He dallied with all of his concubines, but that didn't work. Eventually, Eurmal suggested that he count the clouds in the sky, as counting above 5 always tired himself out, well maybe to 10, or 11. Orlanth counted and counted, but this didn't help, but Heler parted the clouds and revealed the sheep within. Orlanth counted the sheep instead and felt himself becoming drowsy, but the drowsier he felt the closer the sheep came, until they crowded around him. Orlanth put his head on the sheep as a pillow and gathered them around him as a blanket, sleeping soundly in their embrace. When he woke up, he found Voriof clutched in his arms and gave him the task of counting sheep.

Wait until you meet trolls, giants or dragons with buckets of D6s as damage bonuses. A +1D4 or +1D6 Damage Bonus really is nothing. Against someone with armour, you might do damage or might not. If they parry, then you rarely do damage. Magic has far more effect than Damage Bonus for normal humans.

All from memory, Basko was a Sun God who thought he could become Emperor after Aether Primolt retired. So he dressed in fish tails and waited to challenge Yelm when Yelm came to be Emperor. However, he was so overwhelmed by the glory of Yelm that he soiled himself and fell over, so that Yelm didn't even see him as he passed by. Basko then dried up in shame and became a little seed that was forgotten. In the Lesser Darkness, the people of the Land of Ignorance found the seed and worshipped it, revealing the Black Sun, which may be a shadow of Yelm. The Blood Sun is more of a sacrificial way of feeding power to the Black Sun, I think, but I could be wrong there. The Trolls of the Kingdom of Ignorance fed power to the Black sun, as he was a Solar god of Darkness. When the Kralori kicked a load of people out, they went to the Kingdom of Ignorance and resettled it. they might even have kicked the trolls out and forced them further north towards Valind's Glacier. So, the people of the Kingdom of Ignorance worship the Black Sun and the Blood Sun. They give blood sacrifice to the Blood sun to strengthen it and it has become a greedy god, wanting ever more sacrifices. As such, they have a Mesoamerican feel, sort of like the Aztecs, with pyramids with Priests atop them, ripping out hearts and draining blood down the sides. I think that Elder Secrets had some information about the Kingdom of Ignorance and the Black/Bloody Suns. Peter has given a reference from the RuneQuest Companion. The Guide to Glorantha probably has a lot more information, but I might have skipped over that. Interestingly, the Red Emperor HeroQuests as Basko when he opposes Sheng Seleris's nephews when they try to become Emperor. He dresses in fish scales and kills them. this is important because the Red Emperor knew the myth and changed the outcome, so instead of soiling himself and escaping Yelm's attention, he killed the opponents. He could do this, of course, because he was the Emperor, so he was Yelm and could win the contest. HeroQuesting is fun.

In my last campaign, I had an idea that the PCs could go back into The Void and find, or make, the Young Elemental of Storm. This would give the Lunars a way into the Orlanthi and the Orlanthi a way into the Lunars. The campaign ended before it could happen, though.

GMs and Players don't have to stick to the prearranged timeline. PCs' actions change things and if GMs and Players are happy with that, then great. My Players have changed the Timeline loads of times and we had several successful campaigns. Kallyr might still lose, as the Battle of Queens is essentially a duel between the Queens. However, you might have survived it, or might have gathered together the defeated forces and rallied them so they are stronger later. Individual victory an a battle where your side is defeated is quite possible. What, and lose out on all the great ideas it might have? I'd rather they read it and use the ideas as the basis of scenarios.

Sure, why not? You can build a Temple, it's just a building after all. When you make it sacred and put in a Priest, it becomes a temple. Now, it might not have many worshippers, or people from all around might flock to it on a holy day. What would it have? A Temple to Orlanth is fine, that would be expected. An Issaries Temple is a market, so Wilmskirk would be a market town. Lhankor Mhy has a library, so Wilmskirk would have a library. Wilmskirk would have a Hospital, which is what a temple to Chalana Arroy is. A Temple to Eurmal might be just a shrine anyway, so that might attract wandering Eurmali. I have no idea what a Temple to Flesh man or Ginna Jar would be like, as neither has a cult that has been described. Maybe Flesh Man stands in for the Ancestors among Orlanthi. So, I can see Wilmskirk having a market, library and hospital as well as an Orlanth Temple. others could be shrines, or a case of keeping up with the Joneses. So, someone might build a Humakt temple because of the Orlanth temple, then someone else builds a Storm Bull Temple because Storm Bull shouldn't be left out. The rulers of Wilskirk might have built temples to reward cultists for favours they did.

That is just to save space, I think. That is essentially what is happening. That makes sense. I can see some Clans having a subcult that other people don't have. They would probably accept each other as sun cultists. I don't think they would particularly care that the gods are the same or different. What they would care about is their attitudes to different things. A lot of them hate trolls, great. Yelmalio sort-of likes Lunars, not so great. Antirius doesn't like storm barbarians, not so great for the Elmali but fine for the Yelmalian. The only people who would be interested in combining them are HeroQuestors.

Except that Yelmalio didn't exist yet. Yelmalio only comes about as a result of Monrogh and distinctly after time begins, ergo, a separate deity who was retrofitted into the myths and smacks of God Learning The cult of Yelmalio, as restructured by Monrogh, is a recent construct. However, it builds on earlier cults that may, or may not, have been Yelmalio. I am happy to give them the benefit of the doubt. After all, the Sun Dome temples in Balazar date back to before the Dragonkill, way before Monrogh, as does the Sun Dome Temple in Prax. So, clearly, the cult of Yelmalio existed before Monrogh. What Monrogh did was to attract many of the worshippers of Elmal to the cult of Yelmalio. Elmal and Yelmalio are different gods. They are also the same god worshipped in different ways. Both can be true mythically and both can be true in God Time. Think of it this way. At the Hill of Gold, Orlanth meets Yelmalio and defeats him, stripping him of his armour, thus showing that Air/Storm is victorious over Fire/Sky. One myth of Elmal might be that Orlanth then gave his armour back to Elmal when he met him later, thus showing the bonds of friendship between Air/storm and Fire/Sky. So, Elmal is the Thane who left the Fire Tribe and joined the Storm Tribe. So, Yelmalio cultists don't remember the myths of Yelmalio as Orlanth's Thane, because they concentrate on their own myths. Elmal cultists don't bother with myths of being an elf-friend or of fighting Storm Gods, as they don't fit their cult beliefs.

Yelm is the sun god. Yelmalio is the sun god. Elmal is the sun god. Yamsur is the sun god. Kargzant is the sun god. They are all the sun god. They are all variants of the sun god. in Glorantha, each culture might think that their god is the "real" sun god, but saying that any one god is the only god of something is probably wrong.

For me, the deities of God Time had some sequential events, where one followed another, but also had non-sequential events, where effect preceded cause. However, HeroQuestors have one huge advantage over the denizens of God Time - They know what happened. So, a HeroQuestor might meet a deity at one point, knowing what was going to happen to the deity at another point. On the face of it, this is nothing special, but HeroQuestors can manipulate it. Also, HeroQuestors know that some magical places are common to different myths and events. They can manipulate that, too. So, a HeroQuestor might be able to travel to the Only Old One's basement in the Castle of Black Glass. The HeroQuestor might know that this could be used on the Lightbringer Quest, as a way to enter Hell, or on a Caladra & Aurelion Quest to try and free Lodril, or whatever. The HeroQuestor could use the Caladra & Aurelion HeroQuest to gain access to the basement, then switch to the Lightbringer Quest to leave and enter Hell. These events happened at very different times, so this is effectively Chronoportation. The tricky bit is to do this on a God Quest, so that you change God Time and create a new myth that this happened. So, you could travel to the Only Old One's basement, in the same way that Caladra & Aurelion did, then leave the basement and enter into Hell, but for you, as a Hero, it would all be at the same time.

I don't think it was. When Grandfather Mortal died, his soul sent westwards and down into Hell. Who knows why he went that way. When Yelm died, he followed the path of Grandfather Mortal. His daughter, Rausa, followed him and guarded the Western Gate, so that it became known as her gate. Simiarly, the Morning star guards the place where Yeml appeared at the Dawn, although she might not have been there beforehand.

I listened to a few of these and I really liked them. You have a very engaging personality and know your stuff. Call of Cthulhu isn't really to my taste, but you made it sound interesting and fun.

Yes, succeeding in Read/Write in a Language means that you can both Read and Write the Language. No, she does not need to also succeed in a speak roll. speaking is about that, speaking and listening to a language. They are different skills because RQ wants to emphasise that not everyone who speaks a language is literate. Not in RQ, but other D100 games have something similar. Every few years, a debate goes on about having a read/write that is related to a script and then a Language skill that relates to the language. so, if you roll below both your read/write and language skill then you understand fully, if you roll below your Read/write but fail your language skill then you know what the words sound like but not what they mean and so on. It does have its merits, but has flaws as well. For example, I can read Trans-Cyrillic but have no idea what words in Tartar, Bashkir, Khazak or Uzbek mean, but I can read and have a go at pronouncing them. someone who couldn't read but could understand the language might be able to make sense of what I am reading. I can read the Latin Alphabet, so I can pronounce French and Spanish with my schoolboy understanding of those languages, I can also have a go at Italian, although I probably mangle the words. If I read Slavic languages such as Polish or Czech, i can probably use my knowledge of Latin Alphabet and Russian to mangle those as well, or get a slight understanding, despite the extra letters that I am not familiar with. Languages such as Turkish or Finnish are very difficult, as I might understand all the letters (Finnish) but have no idea how they are pronounced, or I might not know the extra letters (Turkish) and not know how to pronounce them. So, I can have a good go at Ingredients on a Polish pack of something, or I can try to read something in Turkish and my wife might be able to work out what it says. In Chinese Script, it makes no sense, as each symbol means something unique. So, if you read a symbol and say it in Cantonese it might sound different to reading it in Mandarin, as the two languages would have a different word. so, the word for Cat in Mandarin and Cantonese might be different, but there is a symbol in Chinese for Cat. Arabic is different, as it is an Alphabet, so each letter has a sound. I don't know Arabic, but it may be that the order of letters might change how they are pronounced. In English, s and h have their own sounds, but the diphthong sh sounds different to both s and h. context can be important, as ch in "loch" is pronounced differently to that in "rich" and, famously, all the "c"s in pacific ocean are pronounced differently. You would need to know the language to know these differences. Orlanthi used cat scratching, which is like Ogham in the real world, and some other script. I think Peloria has its own script. The West has a single script but different languages. I am not sure about Kralorela, but it might use a symbols in the same way that Chinese does. Something like Earthtongue might use a stylus to impress symbols onto clay, like cuneiform, with a written equivalent. i don't know whether it is syllabic or alphabetic, although I am probably using the wrong terminology. In past discussions about this kind of thing, it has generally boiled down to using whichever works best for you.