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They are chaotics by virtue of worshipping the Crimson Bat, a chaotic demon. The "rule" was that cultists with a chaotic feature (which the rules then called chaotics coz Runic Affinities weren't a thing then) couldn't become rune levels (Cults of Terror p74). That said, I dunno what the Lunar Way says about: Cultists who have acquired a chaotic feature *after* becoming a rune-level, Cultists who have had a Chaos Gift. Cultists who can conceal their features due to Illumination and then acquire a chaotic feature. The simplest solution might be the the High Priest of the Bat sorts it out internally by having the errant cultist trip and fall into the Bat's maw.

When I was spitballing some ideas for Lunar Magic for HeroQuest, I did have the idea that a Lunar would be defined by the cult *and* the phase of the Moon. Thus a Dying Yanafali would look very different to a Full Half Yanafali. Nothing much came of it.

Jakaleel is the Dying Moon and Deezola is the Crescent Go Moon

Given the cause of the shipping delays (Houthis), it would be astonishing if the delay only affected some product lines and not others.

On a game design note, sorcerers still have separate skills for each spell making skills for intensity etc. overly needless. For Red Goddess magic, the base for *all* spirit magic is POWx5% so having separate skills for prolong, combine etc doesn't seem that much of a burden to me.

This is a big change from even Heroquest: Glorantha.

What's the Lunar Magic skill that affects more than just spirit magic? On the specific examples, in the old GoG rules Speedart with 2 points amp would have been +10% to hit and +2 damage. With 3 that went to 15% and +3 damage. Demoralize is unchanged as far as I can see.

Pretty sure that's Ostorious Archmagus, not Talar Malaskan Phillippe, you are thinking of

Malaskan Philippe is an Officer, not a Warrior. Even where he's commanding troops, he's always described as a Talar.

Gwyymirs were a rank of elite Brithini warriors in Arkat's Saga and the narrator of that tale hoped to become one but thought Arkat would become one first.

There is an early unfinished Stafford tale "Aftal the Waertag" which was printed in Missing Lands and indicated to have been written in the mid-60s. It also mentions the Deri which appeared in the Guide and the Little People of Jrustela, who are probably now Timinits.

Listing other poorly thought-out alternatives doesn't make the "Let Them Eat Cake" attitude any better.

I'm just happy at this point that Chaosium isn't taking your advice.

Looking through the Book The genealogical tables for many of the ruling houses have been changed from a powerpoint presentation to actual coins of the rulers. There's a piccie in the Xeotam dialogues. The sketch map of the Gloranthan Underworld has been replaced by the Cosmology of Glorantha that was in Cults of RuneQuest: Mythology. A map of Golden Age Glorantha has been replaced by a Map of the same period from the Guide to Glorantha. The same is true for the maps of the Storm Age and Great Darkness.

Judging from Jeff's articles on Facebook, which have been Lunar themed over the past few days, its release seems to me to be near. Aetherworks, the presumed milestone before release, is a bit more pessimistic.