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In the thread on Rikard the Tiger-hearted, Jeff said: Meaning Rikard was an adherent to the Seshnegi form of Hrestolism, similar to that of the Castle Coast and various Safelstran heresies rather than Siglat's New Idealist Hrestolism. What does it mean to be a Hrestoli in late 16th or early 17th century Tanisor? It seems to me that only talar caste Tanisorans have a chance at attaining a man-of-all status, with maybe one or two exceptional horali, outwardly little different from the Rokari. We know that there are strong Hrestoli sympathies among the Pithdarans, who ironically provide many watchers and lesser wizards for the Rokari sect. Controlling the police from within?

Still the Quinpolic League and Handra soon followed the rush of reconstituion of the overseas trade, a bit like the Phoenician city states after the Bronze Age Collapse, rivalled by some of the Greeks and the Lesbos people who settled Etruria. I can believe a grain monopoly into Quinpolic ports, not so much on the Nochet side but a strict set of rules for Quinpolic and Tanier basin merchants about legal purchases. Grain being a bulk good, I don't see much profit in smuggling it, so Esrolian grain merchants might either sail on to Vadeli or Loskalmi ports, or load their less valuable export on Quinpolic ships while keeping the trade with les bulky luxury items on their galleys. It could be some form of protecting Seshnegi land owning nobility while allowing them to switch to cash crops rather than basic food. The monopoly on Melib is by edict of the priest-king Harstar, in payment for Kethaelan protection from the Somash high priest Pubnashab (or his predecessor). IIRC the Kethaelan port was not so much founded but re-activated a year or two before his eviction from the mainland, as the few survivors of the Suam Chow probe probably had to return in badly damaged ships or dinghies, with Lop Nur not necessarily regarded as a safe place to return to.

So Kitori really look like Ferengi under their lead masks?

Check the Guide p.414, Duke Porfain of the Roses: These were used to settle the question of naval domination in the Quinpolic League a generation before (i.e. when Dormal brought the new magic of the Opening). Pasos lost.

IMG Minotaurs are a lot of fertility magic, much like their cousins the broos. They can mate with cattle, Praxian herd beasts, nymphs, and human females. The latter might take some extra magic, as described in Biturian's Travels.

For a while, Greg was talking and writing about the Army of Tomorrow, a regimental order of men-of-all with ten chapters in total, one of which (of about 100 core members, and up to 10 times the number of mercenary followers) active in the Holy Country and Dragon Pass. The rest probably roaming Ralios and Maniria.

Makes me wonder whether ancestral spirits could be sent to possess disease victims to drive out the disease spirits by Daka Fal practitioners? There is a good chance that Ernaldan healers prioritize the mother's health over that of the unborn or sickly child. Bless Pregnancy definitely is a drain on the Ernaldan rune pool, but probably used sparingly by rune levels. The Ernaldan one-use version of resurrection magic Seal Soul (by way of the Good Shepherd) is a drain on Ernaldan rune points, too (also with the almost obligatory "Restore Health" for the lost CON, too). IMG, most NPCs have three rune points or more like most player characters, but will have used one or two prior to the encounter, whether for a communal Cloud Call or similar productive tasks. In a combat environment, they might also have minor wounds keeping their hit point total in a location below their maximum possible score. While spirit magic heal is ubiquitious, so are opportunites to spend MP in a hostile environment, and at least my characters have been known to tough it out if they only lost one or two location hit points in favor of having their magic battery somewhat filled for upcoming challenges. (My CON 19 Ernaldan confused the GM big way by shrugging off the three points of excess damage from a parried critical hit to her leg, being a lot more worried about the sorry state of her shield after that experience...) For a (non-Gloranthan) game of RQ3, I played the only RuneQuest priest in my entire career of playing RuneQuest. 90% temple time meant officiating at minor worship rites all the time, and in that game there was a "1 day in the temple for recovery of 1 rune point" for priests without the need to attend special days. My GM usually allowed me a reasonably full armament of rune points (allocated in specific spells) on the start of an adventure, depending on how much time we had between adventuring or travel days. There is even more of a rune point economy to Chalana Arroy healers than there is to Ernaldans, as there are rather few of them. While they tend to receive significant support by lay worshipers to bolster out their temple sizes, there is a huge demand for their services as well as their charity, easily increasing the rune point prices on occasion.. Ernaldan initiates prioritize kin for their uses of Healing (dealing with injuries mainly). Heal Body restores blood loss and indirect damage, but no characteristic loss, but that Restore spell family is pretty available, too. Permanent loss of limbs without application to magical healing happens to people without (bloodline) kin and without liquid assets. (Still doesn't quite explain why the Gimpy's proprietors chose purchasing the bar over regrowing their legs, but maybe they fell afoul of Seal Wound.) Definitely. I like to run my ongoing travel quests or sandbox explorations without season-long intervals between segments, and quite a few of the published scenarios tend to chain scenarios without regard to holy days. I also have to learn to provide plot and scenario hooks with less of a sense of urgency for the "once a season" style of adventuring. Spirit cult membership can spread the rune point pool out to more (but also rarer) opportunities to regain some rune magic. The jury might still be in session whether Lightning Boy rune points can be regained in Orlanth services.

If Egaija Chewer of Flesh still was Most Reverend Herd Mother at the Paps when Jaldon became the Waha Khan of the Paps, there probably was a herdman child born in the process, as befits an Eiritha priestess. Possibly twinned with a Morokanth girl.

Halwal failed to re-unite Arkat because he left out the most powerful remnant of Arkat's magic still active in the world - the curse on Dorastor. Let me explain (spoilered non-dumb reasoning): Dorastor Dorastor contains Arkat's curse on the Feldichi ruins (explicit in his mention of Dokat in the Guide p.342, sidebar), and any quester seeking to re-unite all those fragments of Arkat probably has to go to the heart of what the gorp has left of Dokat and quest towards Arkat's star from there. Killing the giant gorp, luring it away, or finding a way to survive inside the gorp are minor preliminary tasks yet to do.

If Norayeep's mother could receive Morag by mating with a minotaur hero of the Storm Bison, wouldn't a Morokanth herder be able to select a few of his herd man cows to achieve similar results? Not necessarily bison-form Storm Bull, possibly Aurochs-form minotaurs from Dragon Pass.

If you are willing to run with non-canonical Glorantha, The Widow's Tale by Penelope Love (sadly long out of its meagre print run) and its lesser sequel Eurhol's Vale deal with a pass across the Storm Mountains. Strictly fiction, although full of RQ2isms.

Why do you think I never noticed? But I guess I missed including a Star Captain vessel in my Vita Broyani. There seems to be at least one lasting consequence of RIkard's reign - the name Malkonwal seems to have stuck on southern Heortland.

There are a couple of illustrations of rune-owning deities that I would call the "Major Arcana" cards. What are the chances of getting a deck of cards of these?

IMG weekly services are held, but they tend to be small affairs without much of a crowd. If an adventurer wants to make use of a weekly service to refill their rune point pool, they had better provide sacrificial beasts, food and drink out of their pocket to draw enough of a crowd to make things happen. Yes, there is a possibility to hold a field service using sanctify, but I would give that some hefty malus on the worhsip unless one of the player characters or sidekicks is qualified for leading a congregation. (Massive expenditure of magic points can make up for that, but who is to say a field service will remain unmolested if meajor festivals need to provide guardians?)

Eurmal has taken ownership of... the Illusion rune, according to the God Learners, leaving ownership of the Disorder rune to his Pamaltelan cousin (and first murderer) Bolongo. As the owner of the Disorder rune he would be compelled to disobey. Except... Disorder entities break any such conventions. Be Boggled.

Ducks have teeth in their beaks to hold cigars, not joints. While we didn't know about it at the time, possibly kafl weed imported from Ralios, or homegrown tobacco (Genertela has this mix of New Wörld flora and Old World fauna).

How does a shaman leaving for the spirit plane for good transfer a spirit society she is in charge of? How does a new "charismatic" shaman (are there any others?) take over?

P The Pavis Rubble notably has two surface quarries operated by the City cult with the aid of the Flintnail dwarves. The dwarves excavate tunnels, and will need to get rid of their excavated material, some of which might be used for masonry and the rest possibly for gravel. The trolls near the Troll Break have dug (or gnawed) their own tunnel systems, which may connect to others. Many of the human survival sites in the Rubble have their own underground chambers and tunnels with hideouts and nasty traps to surprise invaders. Most of the bedrock of Prax appears to be limestone or sandstone. Soil cover may vary. But the Big Rubble occupies some of the best grazing and farming land in Prax, which indicates a healthy layer of topsoil above the bedrock in most places. Limestone gravel is a good ingredient for burnt chalk, which in turn is the ingredient for mortar and plaster, but fuel might be a problem.

Safelstran is a Theyalan language with many western elements (and quite likely a lot of dialects based on the city states). Both Vesmonstran and the East Wilds speak Theyalan dialects without much if any Western elements. with Hsunchen a second influence in the East Wilds. Most Arkati ("Stygians") in Ralios are located in Safelster (or Guhan, if you count troll Arkati), rather few in Vesmonstran or the East Wilds. Delela is home of Aruzban Ironarm, an Orlanthi hero who is the opposite of a troll friend, even though he likes to hug them. That's not the place for Stygians to thrive.

The Dragon Pass board game has 12 spots as "dinosaur lairs" distributed across the map. It has one near or at Pegasus Plateau (northeast of Famegrave). There is no reason why herds of dinosaurs should not roam further south than that, but there is neither proof of a somewhat reliable presence of dinosaurs further south. If you think they will enrich your game there, by all means have some. If you want them to be rare or extinct, blame anti-EWF sentiments by the Slontan conquerors of Heortland, or the traditionalists of the Kingdom of Night. if you want more, associate them with the Nightdragon Society among trolls and Kitori who raised the Leaden Bones Serpent to defend against Belintar.

There are other possible venn diagrams, like e.g. as in "I don't dare to contradict the sacred scripture, but I am willing to expand it and use some of its apocrypha regardless". All these diagrams with "Canon" meaning "Statements of Canon I am aware of", and much of YGWV being things I misremembered from canon rather than my own independent creation. Creating against current canon, current perceived canon or previous, now abandoned canon will often be an exercise in futility. Or even just creating outside of current canon (which is where @Crel excels). Been there, done that, on the topic of Aeolian Heortland even. Hence my statement that it is hard - hard to find acceptance and a customer base for. Painting me as being against using unused Abandoned Canon feels weird to me after waffling about RQ3 sorcery being available to everybody and how I can see such a thing happening away from RQG canon that I am aware of (I still have to read all those Cults of RuneQuest books). In this case, we are not talking about canon, but monomyth and the current RQG sorcery rules (which are two different things with some intersectional area). Yes, similar considerations apply. No, Killjoy was not my stance.

If so, I would have preferred being called out to in a less sensitive environment. Issues of child abuse - be it age of consent, early motherhood, child soldiers (Household of Death) or weaponization of infants (Jar-eel breaking the Syndic's Ban) - are X-card territory for a good reason. We are playing a game where mutilation is almost celebrated ("It isn't RQ if there are no limbs flying!") and the deaths of characters and more so of their opponents are part of the game. Where we explore magic and mythology which resolves around the breaking of social taboos. Where we shamelessly appropriate religious practices of other cultures for our enjoyment, and hopefully with some reflection about what we are doing by projecting such activities. Did the authors and publishers of Griffin Mountain do the math? No idea. Do we need to re-evaluate or even re-write Romeo and Juliet?

This still leaves me with the two urban ideas of yours to choose from. Leaving the monomyth in the core Orlanthi region is not impossible, but hard. While I doubt that the Slontan invaders took a serious look at the practices of the Esvulari (other than their taxation for supporting their military presence) - the few sentences in the Durengard Scrolls might be the entire body of lore accumulated outside of Lhankor Mhy temples in the Kingdom of Night - the Esvulari lore seems to have seen some more attention by Belintar, who took the Monomyth and put it into practice for his Proximate Holy Realm in the City of Wonders. And it is the Belintar acedemy of heroquesting which shaped the Sartarite experimental heroquesting lore. That said, postulating runic interactions different from Zzabur's wheel (which is different from the one on the RQG Character sheet) is difficult with the RQG sorcery rules. RQG introduces a few false dichotomies like Man vs. Beast. These traits adding up to 100% is a weird gamist element, which would be served just as well as opposed rolls between two percentile skills above 50% or a resistance roll between traits on a scale from 1 to 20. The RQG rules are supposed to model Lhankor Mhy and Aeolian sorcery, and Rokari sorcery to some extent. For alternate approaches, I wouldn't exactly look at the Aeolian sorcerers. My own RQ3-based speculations on sorcery used by the Aeolians did have access to rune magic for all Aeolians (including sorcerer caste Aeolians), which apparently still is the case in RQG as there are bound to be sorcerer-caste Aeolians who do not qualify for sorcery because they do not fulfill INT or literacy requirements or might be otherwise handicapped. "Spirit Magic" has gone back a few steps towards RQ2 Battle Magic, which has fixed spell effects you need to learn - something you know. I can still envision a Glorantha away from RQG canon where there are knowledge-based forms of magic for the common people, whether on the East Isles as forms of martial art effects, in Kralorela as forms of bureaucracy-enhancing spellcraft, or as extensions of the principle of the Open Seas ritual for people blissfully ignorant of the sorcery techniques and runes.

Why radio buttons, allowing only one choice?

If you are fine with non-canonical stuff: There were speculative sect descriptions in Tradetalk, but still using the "church" style descriptions of Malkionism. Building on Reaching Moon Megacorp's How the West Was One, there was the German freeform Rise of Ralios which featured a number of "Stygian" sects which later saw elaboration for roleplaying. Not that "Watcher" is not an English translation of Greek Episkopos, which had become "bishop" over the centuries of church usage. Platonic philosophy entered Christian lore, too. Much like it is hard to describe moderate to cold climate pre-industrial farming houses that don't resemble Anglo-Saxon or Viking houses (or Bell Beaker houses), or 18th century farm houses, it is hard to describe Platonic monotheistic ideas outside of church teachings. The major shift away from RQ3 Malkionism is the scarcity of sorcery-users in the West, or in the East, while all of a sudden we have quite a few users of sorcery in Orlanthi society through Lhankor Mhy. The HQ2/HQG/Questworlds description of sorcery with grimoires is another thing not quite of RuneQuest. HQ1 Acolytists and Orderlies have disappeared except in Jamie Revell's HQ1 sourcebooks for the West. None for Ralios, though. Mongoose RQ for 2nd Age roleplaying had quite a few bits set in Ralios, although during the height of God Learner power. The sorcery system followed yet another concept, similar to Mythras.