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Looking next door, they just saw Sartar get done in by the Crimson Bat. So they may have thought we're next and attempted a summoning of Waha to prepare for the likely return of Chaos (as opposed to the usual summoning of Jaldon Toothmaker). So the Great Khans of the Bison and Impala were probably jockeying around to become Waha Returned. Now that's Akasta Ironspear (bison) and Mokwaha (Impala). Now here's the thing - Mokwaha was (temporarily) blinded by a Sartarite war party many years ago. So perhaps he was the one who led the attack on the Pol Joni and the Sartarite War Party perhaps had kin among the Pol Joni giving them good reason to blind him.

Not really. There was a Shaman's Alliance that opposed the Pol Joni but Sartar made everything right. This seems to have made the Pol Joni paying respects to the Paps at which point they cease to be Quivini and start to being Praxians. Edit: It's occurred to me that taking place in 1489 would have made it almost 30 years after the fall of Sheng Seleris. The Shaman Alliance were operating against a background of being bossed around by the Pentans not so long ago and may not have been quite so xenophobic.

The Solitude of Testing is the period from 1200 (the fall of Pavis) to 1575 (the arrival of Dorasar) in such diverse sources such as Sun County, Pavis: Threshold to Danger etc.

Under normal circumstances, Kuschile Archery seems like a weak-ass skill that makes no sense for your usual adventurers. But Yelmalio is no ordinary cult. 10% of his initiates have a cult weapon skill of 90% which includes the bow. So their starting best archers are 90% bow and 5% ride. Normally They get Kuschile Archery at a base of 25% which is a huge improvement. Instead of sucking at 5% archery every time they are on horseback, 25% of their arrows are at 90%. So what if Kuschile Archery is a lousy skill to improve compared to ride? All that matters to the Yelmalions, is that from fresh troops, they can muster half-decent mounted archers.

Not necessarily. He's one of the Spirits of Above according to _Nomad Gods_ and the Grazers having come from Prax a few centuries ago would have known of him. He was worshipped by the early Horse Nomads. The Pure Horse People worshipped a superior god as a result of something we donn't know and need not speculate about here. Now consider the view of the Pure Horse People of Prax - you have two gods to worship for the same magic. One is a Star at the Centre of the Nigh Sky while the other is a loser god of an inferior planet whose worshippers are well known to them as walkers and trash. Being Pure Horse Folk, they would accept the god with high status. If the Pure Horse folk were more cosmopolitan (I exclude the Zebra-riding weirdos with their bizarre bondage fetish*) then yes, they would accept Yelmalio. But they didn't become so until the rise of the Pure Horse Queen at which point they were safely removed from Prax. *Interestingly I note that the Zebra Tribe is 17% Yelmalio which is more than the Impala and second only to the Unicorn Riders.

They could worship Pole Star for that.

The Dawn is about 1600 years ago and what people called the sun then isn't really material for RQ, dontcha think?

Based on a thred on the RQ forum. Given that the Pure Horse left Pent in the Imperial Age, who or what are the Julin Marsk? My theory is that they are the remnants of Dara Happan on Horse fled eastwards after their suppression by the Red Emperor. Thus they would worship Yelm instead of Yu-Kargzant and their nomadic practices be deliberate adoptions of Pentan customs rather than age-old traditions. They may even be the Fake Sun Horses mentioned in King of Sartar.

The Grazers already have their own archery deity - Jardan (aka Golden Bow or Yelm the Archer), whom they worship within the cult of Yu-Kargzant (Yelm of the Grazelands). Kargzant is worshipped by those horse nomads who cannot worship Yu-Kargzant due to inferior lineage (ie most Pentans and perhaps the Char-Un). One could be a complete God-Learner and say that Jardan and Kargzant are the same god worshipped in different ways (one by savage horsemen and the other by smug horsemen).

The Imperial Sun is an epithet made by an outsider scribe and not one necessarily made by the Grazers themselves. Yu has the sense of godhood about it rather than Emperor. Hence Yu-Kargzant reads to me like God of Kargzant with time and custom turning the title into a proper name (cf Jupiter whose name is literally "Sky Father"). Most Pentan Sun worshippers are members of a specific tribe. Whether other solar tribes have any is kinda beyond the scope of the forum.

The demigod was Garanian Auroch whom Ethilrist met in Hell (Dorastor: Land of Doom). We don't have much more detail including where he came from (Tawari? Pelanda? Ralios? Etc.)

The sun is Yu-Kargzant. Kargzant is Lightfore. The Grazers can worshipped Yu-Kargzant because they have the lineage. Most Pentans cannot. Kargzant was associated by the Pentans and Dara Happans alike with the Yellow Planet in the Great Darkness and Gray Age. He is qualitatively not the same as Yelm/Yu-Kargzant.

My guess (based on wot Jeff has said) is that many of them are worshipped as Ancestors in Seshnela. Thus they would be open to the nobility who also regulate or prohibit their worship by the soliders and farmers. The stuff about veneration is ignored by the Rokari (Wizards and Nobles) as a barbarous superstition - for them, the only criterion of whether somebody should be worshipped is ancestry. That's why Hrestol's worship still persists in Seshnela even though his reputation is quite bad. Because they are not venerated, they only provide spirit and rune magics. So what would be classified as ascended master cults (if veneration was actually practiced) would be Gerlant, Arkat, Xemela, Hrestol, Froalar and Dormal (a bit tricky calling him an ancestor but the Zzaburi can always create legal fictions to justify the practice). Since Halwal is worshipped in Loskalm, I think that in Seshnela, he, Argalis and Yomili are also followed in Seshnela with Theoblanc being a recent addition. Instead of these being traditional rune cults, they would be more like schools of thought among the wizards with subtle spell effects that comes through practicing their philosophy.

I doubt it. They are more likely to worship KeroFin for childbearing.

There are the Pure Ones of Ralios who never adopted Nysalor. Everybody else still hates them. I doubt that the Telmori of Sartar get eliminated by the Storm Bull people. They might have done so in the past but the Telmori would have ganged up on the Storm Bullies on Full Moon nights a few decades ago with the result they they are not considered chaotic, merely tainted by its presence. The Telmori don't adopt outsiders easily. For starters, they need to be a werewolf. I'd say it will never happen but this is your game and so it can happen.

I undersood Jeff to be talking about tactics such as killing prisoners rather than say, raining thunderstones on a lunar patrol that just crossed a river.

Whatever horses they can ride. Most commonly this would be Darons and Sereds with a few skirmishers riding Galanas Sereds have -1 speed for heavy cavalry so they can. Galanas have -2 for heavy cavalry and are far better suited for chriot duty. They are conversant with the Praxian customs about raiding and also the Orlanthi customs. They would probably raid for livestock rather than steeds. The Zebras have no problem with horses and even ride a variant. They are Pavisites rather than Animal Nomads. The Animal Nomads consider horses unclean but have become accustomed to outsiders riding them.

He's mentioned on the topic in the Guide sidebar p719

Jeff probably will have a better answer (considering the material's largely unpublished), but Hrestol combined all the castes into himself to create an overload of philosophical forms that allowed him to attain a new state of awareness - Joy. You can achieve Joy without combing castes but it is the mist sure route. When they become a Guardian (the rank above commoner). Subsequent higher ranks are dependent on the Guardian having demonstrated his trustworthiness and shown that he has not fallen into Material Error. Depends on which Wiki you refer. If it's my own writing then much of it was composed before the guide in order to make sense of the contradictory sources then proliferating about. Ascended Masters have created a new understanding of the Cosmos which benefits others. They need not have experienced Joy (many sects with Ascended Masters think that Joy is a bad thing). Fort example Rokar is an Ascended Master for his reformation of the Abiding Book. This new understanding may be independent of any magic that the Ascended Master may teach.

Control+F on a PDF often finds what the index omits. Haradinora Dinorthsdottir's lament is given on page 314. She is also mentioned on page 315 under the rising of the Dundealos.

Sartar: Kingdom of Heroes gives the King's name as Dinorth and his daughter as Haradinora.

There may have been. But what is the standard of honor is being used here? Why would firing on army stuck in a swamp be dishonorable for the Orlanthi? Does this mean that attacking somebody held in place by a Glue spell is dishonorable? Or how about Befuddle?

That wasn't not the question but whether an ambush is dishonorable.

Babeester fought Chaos.

I'm not seeing any contradiction.