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Beacuse Daka Fal was once Grandfather Mortal, the first man to die. Daka Fal hates the Gods because they took his birthright.

When what you write looks less than a joke and more like a recital of a tiresome urban legend with zero relevance, then perhaps your sense of humour needs a fine-tune, no? Also responding to a civil request with an insinuation that I am lacking a sense of humour is also poor form.

Fiction which can be disproved by looking at Snopes. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-hole-truth/ Please stick with RuneQuest or Glorantha.

One could always retire from the Humakti by joining Yanafal Tarnils and then retiring from that.

There is however a major riddle about them. The Octamonists reject Diamond and Iron. So why do they live in Diamond Mountain? There is contact with the humans at Sabzevar (Guide p435)

Windwalk has been a Gagarth runespell (Tales of the Reaching Moon #4 for instance).

Western societies might have Geniuses, being the idealized thought of a city or clan. Kralori societies would have a patron dragon. Vormaino societies would have a Joserui while the Eastern Isles would have the parondpara, their island god, doubling as their Wyters.

I'm kinda getting the impression that Harrek's current mustache comes because he like the look of it on a frieze at Lupendars. No mention of a group of eleven merfolk seeking to rob Casino Town?

I really have no idea. All I said was that where the Orlanthi have Wyters, the Lunars/Pelorians would have Lares which are the same thing under a different name. The name change alone works fine for me.

Lares is just a name for Pelorian Wyters, stolen from the RW Lares https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lares

Lares (according to ILH-1 handbook). If that's too romanic then there's always household gods or idols.

If you think that Nysalor was Gbaji at the Battle of Night and Day then you have pretty much said that Nysalor is Gbaji in everything that he does, which is an awfully dogmatic position to take on the whole affair.

Was Nysalor Gbaji at the time? That seems to me a rather cynical view on what is described as a Cosmic-changing event. It's like saying that Jesus gave into the Devil in his sojourn in the desert - it just doesn't feel right.

Nysalor is pretty much described earlier in the text and nobody's noticing any adamantine claws, otherworldly cloak etc, Man-sized and insignificant is all that is said. Moreover for him to be armed with those things contradicts the nature of Nysalor. He is what he is, not what he is armed with. The trollpak version is written nearly three centuries later and is thought to be an eye-witness account. Moreover it does not describe the events of the Battle of Night and Day but the spiritual battles when the curse was sent, something far more ambiguous.

A few comments on an article which I really liked. Rumour 50 seems dated if RQ supplements are going to be set after the Dragonrise. The Queendom of Jab might be a more terrifying foe. Rumour 44. Pretty much had it sussed that leonardo was a commoner rather than a wizard. Glad to see somebody else had a similar idea. The bank breaking has its origins in a fan theory that Belintar broke the bank of Casino Town to enforce its sovereignty over God Forgot. Jeff's pored cold water on it in that Casino Town was not around at that time. However all that means is that the Breaking of the Bank sometime during Belintar's four centuries of rule rather than at the beginning as a result of now obscure political events. Rumour 57. Like the idea that the farmers are actually Bandori rather than Brithini. Rumour 59. Liked the mention of the one-armed bandits. My own thinking is that there are three types - Copper which do 1d6 damage through to Golds which do 6d6 damage. People can halt a One-Armed Bandit's attack by feeding them with the appropriate coins. One coin allows one spin (roll 3d6 with rewards based on doubles and triples). As to how Casino Town might have come to be, I think Rumour 64 is literally true. The Brithini used to run a primitive insurance market there for ocean-going vessels. Later bored sailors, wanting for a favourable wind, hit upon the idea of borrowing money for gambling purposes and found the cagey Talar all to willing to lend and things went downhill from there. I'm basing this on the RW interaction between gambling, insurance and the development of probability theory (which could also mean that the Brithini have interesting ideas on the concept of cause and effect - Hume was a inveterate gambler who based his theories of reality on the "lucky streaks" he had from time to time).

The Adamantine Claws reference is from Trollpak (Uz Lore p29).

According to History of the Heortling Peoples, Nysalor didn't have or use adamantine claws. How this is reconciled with the Trollpak version, I have no idea.

Google Image search gives this page https://www.casus-no.net/viewtopic.php?p=1817612 Which ascribes it to Jeff.

I didn't tell you to shut up and go away. If, for example, you had merely mentioned that you had an MRQ campaign and wanted suggestions then it would have been fine. But that's not what you were doing. You were: a) complaining that people didn't like MRQ's stuff (so what? There's nothing you can do and whining isn't going to help) b) claiming that MRQ was brilliant stuff because it had invented the acolyte which mean nasty Jeff stole for RQG and refused to give thanks and praise. c) slagging of chaosium for not having ETAs on their products (in response to the factual statement that MRQ's material was poor because they had short deadlines). In short, you were becoming worked up and aggressive about the fact that you had a minority opinion about MRQ (that's okay - if some people think the Phantom Menace is a good film thenit's surely legitimate to think that MRQ's material was good) . My statement that you should learn to accept the state of affairs and move on nipped your impending tantrum in the bud and for that I make no apologies. I did not miss your point because you did not even make it. Now begone and do not @ me in the future.

I actually looked at the same material and found most of it quite poor. Not because of its canonity or lack thereof but mostly that it was just names thrown pollock-like upon a blank space. It ranked up there with a lot of the HW/HQ1.0 stuff, which unlike MRQ's stuff did claim to be canon at one point. Get over yourself. I was not censoring anything nor treating anyone as an apostate. I was merely pointing out that complaining about people not liking MRQ's material is unlikely to change anything. Merely accept that your own taste is different and move on. If you think that is bowdlerization, then I suggest that you consult a dictionary.before making a further nusiance of yourself.

Rather than waste people's time trying to change their minds or falsely claiming specific ideas as being brilliant concepts invented by MRQ, just accept that the majority of people don't like it and move on.

Acolytes as a name appeared in Gods of Glorantha. In RQ2, they were known as associate priests.

If you're going to redefine terms into meaningnessless so that you can pretend your original statement was not in error, don't bother responding to others. Just take it as given that they will agree with your definition and everybody will be happier. Argan Argar is depicted as a Dark Troll, which is not the same thing as being a Dark Troll. Being a God means that his children would be Mistress Race IMO.

Nope. Tis Argan Argar who's depicted as such; Nothing about Heroquesters.

Elder Secrets Book p33 Baranwolf, a Lhankor Mhy scholar, proved that the amount of precious metal in the world indicated the fatality rate of the various tribes of gods in olden times. Baranwolf was executed by Frithorf the Magnificent, an astonishingly superstitous king who could not accept the resultant conclusion: that the storm gods died the most. Baranwolf's student, who continued his papers (and began using Baranwolf's name) subsequently proved that bronze is also the product of mixed sky and earth, showing where Orlanth's parents once loved eached other before the illutsrious son was born, preparing the way by making places where future weapons would be sown to glorify Orlanth.