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Why not? If a Yelmalian High Llama Rider, who cannot ride a horse due to taboos, gained a Kuschile Archery skill, why wouldn't it apply to a High Llama? I would limit the shot to the Humakti's Ride skill and keep it simple.

He sees himself as a King to Be, someone with a destiny, someone powerful. This would affect how he treats people. Before he became powerful, when he was in Pavis, he was a friendly if not standoffish Adventurer. Now he has returned from his voyage with Harrek he is a changed man. He is probably arrogant and doesn't interact with common people. He is King of Pavis so has people to talk to other people. He is surrounded by his bodyguards and council, so he listens to them. When he talks to other people, they are summoned to his Council. So, he would be arrogant, driven, power-hungry, almost desperate, probably volatile.

Generally, if people have to ask "Is this income?" then it clearly is. So, anything you gain from loot and so on, even finding long-lost treasure, is income. You pay your dues to the cult. If you don't then you lose your standing in the cult, can't gain new magic or regain Rune Points, and so on, so people generally pay this. Do you take this into account? Does it affect PC in any way? That is just something that everyone pays when they do the harvest or take animals to the market. Some of the animals are just taken and put into the cult pens. For me, when the Lunars raise taxes, or even the Prince of Sartar, they raise taxes on the Clans and Tribes and they use their coffers or collect it in other ways. Merchants pay taxes, or tolls, to travel roads. Adventurers used to pay taxes to enter Pavis, or they did in our campaign, paying a "Leg Tax" on entry to the City at the Gates.

The whole point is that the Kings of Caldaraland were periodically sacrificed by being thrown into the Volcano. Belintar himself became such a sacrificial king and was thrown into the Volcano but came back and said "I have been sacrificed so nobody else needs to be". Now he is long dead, the practice could start up again.

Being reminded of the Curse of Kin. Listening to a song and realising that it is not the lost fertility song of Korasting. The touch of fire.

Did anyone see it? If not, you could be a big bag of wind, or a silver-tongued chaos killer.

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Here are some ideas from the Issaries Myth in the Lightbringers book: "He was noted for his cleverness and smooth tongue and wanderlust. While still ignorant of his own powers, he was found wandering in distant realms." - Origin Myth maybe awakening his powers. "One story says that he was the messenger carrying the secret notes between Sky and Earth that led to the begetting of Umath." - HeroQuest to enable a courtship and secret birth. "He is sometimes found as a conciliator, as when he settled an early argument between Yelm and Orlanth." - Issaries Peacemaker HeroQuest. "He was sometimes aiding war, as when he taught Humakt a secret battle language in return for protection." - Using his skills to gain protection seems like a useful heroQuest. Silver People Myth - Making silver coins to promote commerce. "He prepared his Spell of Passage and set off to find the light of communication with which to rekindle the world." - Start of the Lightbringer Quest, from the Issaries viewpoint. More is said about the LBQ. "Issaries’s golden home is the Exchange Place on the slopes of the Spike, near Orlanth’s palace. From here, worshipers may exit to the Golden Age, Lesser Darkness, or Greater Darkness." - Good starting points for Issaries HeroQuests exploring those Ages. "In the Lightbringers cult, the god Issaries Goldentongue is also the spirit guide for the other cults, leading the dead souls in general to the Underworld." - Maybe a HeroQuest to guide a Spirit to the Underworld so that it cannot be Resurrected. "Mules are the favorite beasts of the cult. These are said to be an invention of Issaries, conjured up by him in order to make something to sell out of nothing. These animals are very useful to the cult as work beasts and as trade items. Also, they may claim these beasts as not-horses among horse-haters (such as Doraddi and Praxians), and as horse-kin among horse-lovers (such as Grazeland Pony Breeders and Pentans)" - That would make a great HeroQuest, establishing the Issaries cultist as a friend of both Horse-Haters and Horse-Lovers. "Issaries was absent from his golden home on the Spike when the disaster struck and robbed him of home and kin. He traveled on through the dangers, rootless, ever protective of his own place. He met Lhankor Mhy, who was the holder of many secrets, and the two became friends." - Maybe a HeroQuest to befriend a Sage. "Chalana Arroy received a wound which would not heal, Issaries lost his road, and Lhankor Mhy found a fact he could not know. But they all persevered and found their way." - A HeroQuest to triumph over adversity, when all is lost. "Orlanth claims to have forced Eurmal to help, Lhankor Mhy claims to have reasoned Trickster to the need, Issaries says he talked him into it, and Chalana Arroy says she convinced him with mercy and kindness." - A HeroQuest to be able to talk a Trickster into doing something would be useful.

Don't forget Flintnail Dwarves, as they are Openhandist and Individualist, also they worship Flintnail and Pavis. They are quite different from normal Mostali. There are also Chaos Mostali in the Tunnelled Hills, but who knows what they believe. In Dorastor, the Hellwood and Poisonthorn Aldryami are at war with one another. Although they are both rabidly xenophobic, the Hellwood Aldryami hate Lunars and Humans more than the Poisonthorn Aldryami do, they also have a healthy dollop of Krjalk worship thrown into the mix. Aldryami in the Garden, in the Big Rubble, want a return to the Green Age, or the restoration of the Forest of Prax. I am not sure about the intentions of the Great Forests, obviously they want to expand and to reclaim their former territories but many are friendly towards humans.

In my Glorantha, your Hero Soul is like a Shaman's Stored POW, but for Heroes, and it acts as a generic Rune Pool, so you spend Hero Soul MPs as Rune Points. You could spend them as Diving Intervention, but things would be really bad if you had to do that. Yes, I agree, but for Heroes and HeroQuestors not just for Rune Magic. It is your presence on the Hero Plane or your Heroic Self, in the same way that a Fetch is a Shaman's presence on the Spirit Plane or a Spirit Self.

Oslir gives SurEnslib Water Walk, and Biselenslib Control Flood. Yestendos provides both with Float so I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't grant Oslir the same spell. Oslir is also the wife of Alkor but he doesn't grant any spells so far, as far as I could see.

What annoys me most about Homeland skills is the huge numbers of weapon skill adds. I don't care about having a bonus to both Medium and Large Shields, for example. Just give me a bonus to weapon categories, for example Shields, Swords, Axes and so on, that makes things a lot simpler.

Which is fine until you view it on a monitor and expand in to it. That's why I prefer a scale being physically present on the map, showing distance in miles and kilometres.

In Prax the two aspects are worshipped together. So, Storm Bull is the Father of Beasts, Eiritha's Husband, the Father of the Founders, Father of Waha and so on. In Eiritha Temples that is how he is worshipped. But Praxians also know that he is a Chaos Fighter as well and they don't separate his worship. Praxians might worship him as the Desert Wind but he doesn't give much as that is a dry, harsh wind that is not useful to Praxians. Minotaurs might worship Storm Bull as a Founder, without his Chaos-Fighting stuff.

As far as I know, that is still the case. Not as far as I know. Glorantha Bestiary p 73 says "Since the Trollkin Curse, trolls have decreed that all multiple births are trollkin".

One is a mythological list and one is a historical list. Makes sense to me.

Yes. Who says that it is all-powerful? Malkiioni and Brithini certainly don't. It owns the Law Rune, I think, but I haven't checked. It also has the Magic and Infinity Rune. Not all powerful deities own multiple Runes. Is this the order of publication of the Cults books? Chaosium have their own reasons for the order that the books come out. It certainly isn't due to the order that the Deities appeared in Glorantha, otherwise Darkness would have been the first to be published.

Why bother? Kralorela was perfect in the Golden Age and the Emperors have been trying to make it perfect again. The rest of Glorantha can continue to wallow in its filth and impurity for all they care. Kralorela helped the EWF in the Second Age and look what happened then, they learned that lesson. Void is nothingness, emptiness, the loss of existence. Chaos is corruption, destruction, the loss of everything. So, they are very different. Some people want to return Glorantha to Primal Chaos, which is the state of not being, and identify that as the Void. However, the Void is not simply Primal Chaos, for Primal Chaos is something, and the Void is nothing.

It was my opinion, not a source. I don't see the use of coal and oil as particularly Bronze Age, although bitumen seems to have been used in the Bronze Age, and lignite was used for carving in the Neolithic.

For me, Osentalka the Perfect One was born during the Sunstop, as was Arkat. Osentalka then became two personalities in the same body, Nysalor and Gbaji. It may be that Osentalka originally embodied both sides of his personality but at some point they became two. So, Nysalor and Gbajiwere two personalities in the same body. Does that mean they are the same person? Maybe, it could do. I can't remember what caused the split, maybe it was Arkat, maybe it was something else. Some people say that when Arkat and Gbaji fought their final battle, one emerged but nobody knew which it was. If you have seen the excellent Scanners film, it might be something like how that ends. For me, Arkat could have been split into two personalities by the battle, in the same way that Osentalka was, but in his case it was Gbaji the Destroyer a non-chaotic version of Arkat, who was awakened. I think they are two sides of the same coin, so Gbaji is another side of the personality of the main person. So Osentalka/Nysalor and Osentalka/Gbaji are two different personalities but the same person. If you think of it as a cinematic split personality then it might make sense. Oh, Gbaji is objectively real. Is is really confusing and, I think, deliberately so. Everyone has their own interpretation, so have a look and decide which bits you like.

Cave Trolls and Sea Trolls. Both were changed by Pocharngo and neither became chaotic by eating kin.

Glorantha hasn't shrunk but the people within it have. The Deities were gigantic. Larnste sat down when he was tired of creating the Rockwoods and where he sat became Dragon Pass. His Footprint is a huge Chaos Nest in the Holy Country. Genert was a huge giant with a massive Garden, to us, but it was more like his back yard. So, for the Deities, Glorantha was really small. As people have become smaller, the land seems larger than ever before. Now, some of the land has vanished beneath the waters. At one stage, everything was dry land but then the waters invaded and sank much of it. The Spike exploded. Both of those events reduced the amount of land available, making Glorantha appear smaller.

I do, with more detail of the Hero Wars. I have run a group through the Hero Wars twice, with great success. Each time the Adventurers were the focus, driving events and performing many of the deeds described in King of Sartar, not as contrived events, but as natural things that came out of the Campaign. Absolutely wrong, in my experience. The deeper I went into the metaplot the more scope the Adventurers had to change things or to follow the broad brush approach. Nobody felt railroaded into everything, we changed a lot of stuff through the actions of the Adventurers and made the Hero Wars their own. I cannot remember Mello Yello becoming the Golden Dragon Emperor of Dara Happa in the official metaplot, for example.

Until the Volcano gets hungry.

For me, there were two Draconic centres in GodTime, Dragon Pass and Kralorela. They were equally as important. The Dragonewts of Dragon Pass had Inhuman Kings as their ruler, or end state, before the Inhuman King turned into a Dragon. The Dragonewts of Kralorela had the Dragon Emperor as their leader and their Rulers turned into Dragons without reaching the Inhuman King state. Nothingness, the Emptiness, the lack of everything, the Unknowable.