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Orlanth doesn't even provide his fellow lightbringers with that many rune spells!

Orlanthi heroes could still use basic magic which is a (rough) equivelnt of RQ's spirit magic. I think Baroshi is still alive. He was active throughout the Great Darkness when Ernalda was dead. A mere Windstop's not going to stop him, no? Whether he still provides Earth Rune Magics is a decision for the GM.

No Rune Magic from Orlanth. No Rune Magic from Ernalda. Whether other gods can use Storm or Earth Rune Magic is debatable but I think not (Storm Bull could use a Berserk Spell for example but not a Command Sylph). Spirit magic is not from the gods so works normally.

They would have some pelorian elements in their culture (both social and material) - not consistently but from a wide variety of Pelorian cultures. Even the traditionalist Old Tarshites who scorn the Lunars would have northern ways that would startle the southerners. Tribal kingships might be dominated by aristocratic families to a much larger degree than in the rest of Sartar.

It's not illegal, just untaxed.

Lodril lies between the surface world and the underworld (some apocryphal material has called this Earth world) and volcanic regions are places where he hasn't burned himself out.

In Pent is the Hot Lake, a large inland sea, which probably is caused by volcanic activity. But geological activity in Pent is more like lands of the dead bubbling up from the Underworld (like Senbar) than vulcanism.

Probably. There's some theological issues with it. Not as bad as some of the other cults but still raises the question of "how could that even happen?"

There's a picture in Wyrms Footprints p42 about death-hounds carrying the Sun down to the underworld and mentions this is part of Orlanth's Sword Story. It's not that much of a leap to identify Telmor as carrying down the Sun.

Methinks you are misinterpreting what that statement is about. It's not what cults you can join but what worship ceremonies you can attend if you are a member of certain cults. A worshipper of the Seven Mothers cannot attend a worship ceremony of Pavis because the cults are neutral to each other and they have no friends or associates in common. In order to do so, the Lunar has to join his cult or that of the Zola Fel (other cults listed in Cults of Prax p50 are possible but rather improbable for a Lunar). No special permission is or has ever been required and the rules do not make any mention of such a thing. There is no problem with a Telmori worshipping Humakt in Dragon Pass (they could have a problem in Ralios or Fronela) and it is absurd to suggest otherwise. The RQ:G rules say no such thing. Given that you are making assumptions *and* saying that they are what the rules say, I'm out of here.

My original response to you was that the actual question was whether they could *join* neutral cults. I've been over that before and pointed out the the section about membership in multiple cults. All that it stipulates there is that the cults be *compatible* (Cults of Terror allowed members from neutral cults to join and there are plenty of examples in the literature of this -for example, Lunars worshipping Pavis) I am not seeing anything from you as to why Telmori cannot worship Humakt other than this just below: Humakt's holy days are Windsday in Storm Season, Waterday in Sea Season, Fireday in Fire Season, Clayday in Earth and Freezeday in Dark Season. Since Full Moon falls on Wilday in Prax and Dragon Pass, I'm not seeing the problem for the Telmori werewolf. That's not what Cults of Terror p89 describes and assuming a special permission is needed is something that not been seen before. From who would the Telmori need the special permission? The local Humakti priest in his tribe? I've a feeling he would be little more than a rubber stamp. Telmor doesn't have a history of stealing stuff from Humakt. Telmor isn't even Humakt's kin so there's no kinship relation to even *sever*. Why can't the Telmori have a humakti brotherhood which functions as the local temple? Cults of Prax speaks of "holy and magical swords" counting as "mobile altars or shrines" (CoP p33)

Boggles aren't chaotic.

Pavis: Threshold to Adventure p18-20? There's a bit more in Pavis: Gateway to Adventure but that's now out of print.

You are relying to a stat description which is a rather weak reed to base your pronouncements of incompatibility upon. Even in Cults of Prax, chaotic members of Humakt were acknowledge.

Cite for this? It's not in the RuneQuest Glorantha rulebook.

That's different from the question of whether you can *join* two cults that are not friends or associates of each other. And the answer to that is yes. RQ:G says p275 that the test for "Membership in Multiple Cults" is that they be "compatible", not that they be friendly or associates. Since even street thugs in New Pavis know that Broos can worship Humakt, a Telmori worshipping him is not a problem. But when is the key question. Are they initiates as the result of a 100% pass rate at the standard coming of age ceremonies or are they intiates from birth? Jeff's answer (and the example of several members of the Sartar Royal House suggests the former).

I thought the Kodigvari was a reference to Harmast.

The reference is History of the Heortling Peoples p38 From this Urvagal would have been Garanvuli not Hendriki. The last person bearing the Kodigvari signs would have been -400 ST and probably was the Hidden King slain by Heort. Urvagal would have lived after that time, most probably in the century preceding the Dawn. I get the impression he was a God Talker rather than a Hero.

I'm finding the theory being advanced that the Telmori could join the cult of Orlanth because the Orlanthi cannot sense their chaotic nature to be somewhat absurd. There's a huge difference between not being able to sense the chaos of someone in front of you and having your chaotic nature exposed in an initiation ceremony. For example: Whatever Sartar may have thought about them (Was he illuminated? Was he wilfully blind?) is IMO unknowable and different people will have different theories about what he intended. I think it easier just to say that Tarkalor used the Telmori as his Big Sticks whereas his successors, not having his heroic stature, resorted to using them to cow the tribes. When the Lunars took over, everybody has bad memories of the Telmori.

The Sartarites think the Telmori are chaos-tainted because they *are* chaos-tainted.

Oakfed is so-called because he was fed the oaks of Prax in the Great Darkness. He does not feed exclusively on oaks or even woody plants in general as he appeared at the Battle of Moonbroth where there are no large trees.

The scenarios include the Howling Tower (reused in Sartar: Kingdom of Heroes), Miskander's Tower (See Pegasus Plateau and other Tales) among others. Hence it's probably not worth your weight in gold trying to get a copy.

The slaughter of the Healing Valley is first mentioned in the prosopedia of RQ3's Gods of Glorantha. As for trying to find a reason for the slaughter, that's kinda like trying to find one for Apollo's skinning of Marsyas. It was long ago, it happened and nobody knows why.

Perhaps the healers broke a taboo. If they were operating within an earth temple and had to spill some blood for medical purposes then that could be sufficient to st Babeester Gor off. After all, Taboos are absolute and claiming lack of intent is generally insufficient as an excuse.

Nope. RQG p274 sez otherwise and that's been the case as far back as Cults of Prax. Your original comment was to the effect that this happened to a "lot of converts" . Merely because it could happen does not make it a common occurrence.