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Great stuff, thanks.

Ah, many thanks. I don't have that as a separate image and was working from previous maps of the Big Rubble. I'll have to check my PDF of HQ Pavis:GTA, extract the map and see what goodies it has that I haven't yet captured.

I would guess that this will come in later supplements. RQG is at that stage where a lot has been crammed in, but a lot has been missed out, to avoid an 800 page rulebook. Hopefully, Heroforming will be covered later and put on an official footing. It is already there in previous canon, so just needs to be made official again.

Before King of Sartar they were treated as different gods, King of Sartar definitely said they were the same god and i can remember some backtracking on the whole concept. It is not an academic debate, but a discussion over opinions and remembering previous conversations over 30-odd years. Having to justify every comment with footnotes and references is just plain mad.

It makes sense for Rhino Riders as well, imagine a Rhino Charge with 2 lances per Rhino!

As far as suggestions go, that is definitely not heretical. That makes a lot of sense. Traditionally, dismemberment is used to stop a Deity from reforming, or to stop reforming easily. Before Death came along, it could have been used to reduce a deity's power or to slow down a return. With the advent of Death, however, such a dismemberment means the deity cannot come back at all, which may not have been Orlanth's intention. Putting Yelm back together via a series of HeroQuests is another useful idea that comes out of this. It was very clear, thanks. Wow! Things can get a bit deep and heavy in Gloranthan discussions, but it sounds as though you already understand a lot. Welcome aboard!

From my point of view, the Cult of Yelm emerged as a result of the cultural clash between three sun-worshipping cultures in the 1st Age: DH, Horse Nomads, Heortling, not the deity Yelm. There's a big difference.

From a gaming point of view, of course Glorantha has been constructed with the real World and God Plane separate, as you have mentioned. However, from a Gloranthan point of view, the God Plane came first and the Real World is what is left over after Time began. And would go against everything that has been developed for Glorantha.

And this is the problem. Lots of people, apparently, want MW material but nobody is prepared to apply for a Licence.

Clay Mostali reproduce rather than being manufactured. Elder Secrets describes how they grind away with mortar and pestle before producing offspring. I am not a fan of "All Mostali are contructs", that is fine for True Mostali, but not for Clay Mostali.

And then he wasn't and then he was.

Lightfore is probably a part of Yelm, just not the Sun Disc. To be honest, I've never really cared much for Lightfore and don't know anything like enough about him to comment. Personally, I'd just ignore him until I need him.

Yep. The Sun Disk is also Yelm. Who is the Sun Disk who rises and falls each day. The Bright Sun, the Imperial Sun, revived with Time to be guarantor of the Cosmic Compromise. Of course, what would the God Learners make of Disk vs Disc? Surely some inner Gloranthan meaning there?

For me the dancers in Darkness are corrupted Nymphs rather than Vampires, they are Marsh Nymphs, so have some crossover between Water and Earth Nymphs, but have been corrupted by Delecti. Also, Delecti isn't himself a Vampire, but can create and command Vampires, so he is probably a Hero of Vivamort without being a Vampire.

Yelmalio is the Cold Sun, the Winter Sun or the Mountain Sun, still the Sun Disc, but the one that manifests weakly. He is also Light Without Heat.

Work faster! Apparently, you only need 3 hours sleep at night to function.

I'll let you into a secret, but don't tell anyone else - It's all just made up, really!

Well, in a description of the Dawning, it mentions that Time, with her 294 daughters, steps out. These clearly refer to the days of the Gloranthan Calendar and personifies Time as a Goddess.

Personally, I think that the Red Goddess is another Aspect of Illumination, so Rashoran, Nysalor and Red Goddess are equal in their effect and transformation. The Red Goddess was freed by Nysalor when she met him on a HeroQuest, however, she has since moved Lunar Illumination along by quite a bit. In my opinion, Lunar Illuminates are Nysalor Illuminates but also have a lot more that they can do or have experienced. I think that Nysalor did not teach that he was the Seventh Portion of Yelm's Soul, but the Lunars have recognised/discovered this and this has led to new facets of Illumination.

There is a theory going around that Lodril is Aether Primolt's penis and that lava is his fiery seed. So similarly Lodril becomes Genert's penis and lava is his fiery seed. The split between brothers originally had Lodril owning the surface and Yelm being given the lands below, but Yelm didn't like that and asked to be given something else. It ended up with Yelm being in the Underworld anyway, possibly because of the original division. Lodril burst forth into the Surface World. Now, according to the God Learners, Fire/Sky is on top of the Earth. Presumably, Aether Primolt's fiery essence came from within the Earth (Ga) and rose to cover her. So, that mimics the Fire Within the Earth appearing on the surface. I think that Lodril has a place in the earth because of several things: Aether Primolt originally came from the Earth, so there is a concept of Fire Within the Earth anyway Lodril was given the Underworld as his realm, so belongs there as part of the division of the Cosmos Lodril, as the Sky Spear, thrust himself into the Earth and released his fiery lava against Krarsht Krarsht trapped Lodril within the Earth, in her web of lies

I'd be tempted to make the spell-draining a Vivamort spell, in the same way that Thanatari can access Runemagic from Severed Heads. That way, it's a cult effect not a special ability. As most Gloranthan Vampires worship Vivamort anyway, it doesn't impact them but makes it nice and tidy.

To be honest, the whole of Lunar Illumination from Imperial Lunar Handbook 2 passed me by. I have tried to read it many times but my eyes glaze over and I lose interest every time.

As there is a clear fan demand, why not make Magic World OGL, in the same way as Chaosium is making HeroQuest OGL? That way, fans could make their own supplements without any work on Chaosium's part.

Not in Pendragon or Prince Valiant, but yes for RuneQuest, BRP and Revolution D100. The Merrie England line covers the reigns from Henry II to Henry III, including Richard I and John.

Nu-Glorantha, hmmm, MGDV. I forgot that Ostrich Riders use a fancy boomerang. From memory, it was shaped a bit like a Movement Rune, wasn't it? You know, they might, perhaps, get off the Ostrich while sneaking up to use a blowpipe.