Tindalos

For the event? The Book of Heortling Mythology mentions it on page 75 (referencing the map on page 74), with similar terms, and showing it as existing in the flood era.

Yeah, one of the advantages of the print formatted version was the logo got moved to the back cover, allowing the full artwork to be seen.

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The Crimson Bat doesn't want to be worshipped, or be in the world at all. The whole sacrifice of sentients is a result of the use of the Bat Mastery skill, forcing it to accept others in place of its own cultists, which is what it's really trying to devour. The 1% of candidates for initiation into its cult who get "rejected" is just because of the Bat Mastery skill being fumbled, and the Bat being able to act naturally for a moment. This is why, in times of peace, the Bat only hungers for 25 sacrifices per week. In peacetime that's the number of Bat cultists. When war comes, and people join the Bat's cult to avoid being eaten themselves... they directly cause the Bat's hunger to increase. Arkat's great victory over the beast in the first age was understanding it, destroying all who would worship it, and allowing it to go home. It still misses him for that reason.

Page 24: Lesilla Era, should be 9000 years long, not 900 to match the dates given.

The Obsidian and Blood novels by Aliette de Bodard. It's a series about the High Priest of Mictlantecuhtli, and is effectively a supernatural detective mystery series. With blood sacrifice. Its approach to religion, magic, and the divine realms help make it incredibly appropriate for Gloranthan inspiration. Especially for underworld cults.

Gerendetho is the Dara Happan name for Pamalt.

Also isn't there a giant turtle in (Spoilered just in case)

Those are just fuzzy Uz!

On the other hand, I have remembered page 8 of the Red Book of Magic's section on How Does Rune Magic Appear, Sound, and Feel. There it mentions that when you cast runespells you do gain sensory manifestations to resemble your deity. Dark skin (or rather the caster taking on a blackish hue) is even mentioned, although for Babeester Gor rather than Humakt. It's just these manifestations have no mechanical effect, so even if Barntar's magic does make you look like a super fit Viking farmer, it doesn't affect your STR, CON, or SIZ. So Heler's magic may change your body to match the fluid god while it's functioning, but no change to your sheet otherwise. Of course, for something granting mechanical differences, I've already given my viewpoint, which has already been referred to by people in the thread. 😜

And maybe that's what ultimately makes a superior trollkin, with a lot of it being nurture over nature.

Page 92 of the Guide mentions "Since the Trollkin Curse, trolls have decreed all multiple births are trollkin." So still canonical.

I mean, Yinkin does have some cat shapeshifting magic. Claws, cateye, and (through his grandparents) Transform Self. Two of those are even shared with Odayla. Just as his initiates can cast transform self to become a bear, or Telmor's can to become a wolf, Yinkin's initiates can become alynxes. A better example of this is Storm Bull.

Page 81: Unlike the core rulebook, Eiritha does not have Storm Bull or Waha as associate cults. (Maybe an intentional change, but just in case)

A similar ritual seems to happen between Murharzarm and Nestendos to boot! "The great cold monster lashed itself forward and sought to bite Murharzarm. The god broke its teeth with his scepter. The monster then wrapped itself around Murharzarm from his left foot to his chin, encoiling his body seven times, and lifted its great head to stare at Murharzarm in the face. But the god was not paralyzed like prey."