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  1. Ali the Helering
    Whilst I agree that technology in and of itself doesn't make things moral, it does enable things that can make life qualitatively better. Public health, better communications, as obvious examples. Do we have to invoke Monty Python here?
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    Or Lunars good, because a) greater gender equality, b) cultural inclusivity, c) higher technology. I agree with your sympathy for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Durulz. 🦆🦆🦆
  3. Ali the Helering
    Yes, they are mentioned.
  4. Ali the Helering
    In FS p81, against the title 'Low Dara Happan Religion' Greg noted "I'd sure like to have this myself." It has always struck me as significant.
  5. Ali the Helering
    Hastatus, Sagittus and, indeed, Shargash, with Polaris for the officer corps.
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    I have to admit that I don't see the point of the debate. If you want to play a combat monster, do so. If you think Yelmalio is a suitable deity for your character, choose him. That's what role play is all about. If you want Yelmalio to have Shield, give it to him. If you want pacifist Uroxi, fine. Your Glorantha has varied.
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    I would go for 1613.of the two on offer, but I would really like something set in the First Age....
  8. Ali the Helering
    I did run a scenario where Glorantha was revealed to be a 'map' on a RingWorld ocean where the gods were AIs. Uzuz as Protectors. Bad move. Almost wrecked the wider campaign.
  9. Ali the Helering
    That too. Truestone is scrith. The road to the moon is the arch. The Hungry Plateau is labeled in one map as 'the Lift', presumably the equivalent of the Map of Mars.....
  10. Ali the Helering
    There are times my co-religionists make me weep. I knew a minister who held a book-burning of Harry Potter novels. He didn't even recognise it as intolerance.
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    Indeed the RW is the model, but Glorantha a different overall picture. Whilst Heler has similarities to some RW deities, I don't think any is a direct parallel. The concern was vaguely phrased, so that it was not directly offensive. I was reassured by his response to my remarks, since tolerance of Paganism is by no means universal. When delivering my course on 'Experiencing Faith' it was often the area which met with the most prejudice.
  12. Ali the Helering
    In his later years he disowned 'The White Goddess' himself, wondering what had come over him to write such rubbish!
  13. Ali the Helering
    No hassle, I am very happy to do so. My predecessor is an 'evangelist' for the virtues of D&D and WH40K, so it isn't RPGs that are the problem anyway. More a matter of the inability to distinguish RW from fantasy religion. Of course, that could be seen as Greg's genius.
  14. Ali the Helering
    Only if they were Americans would that be applicable. Thank you for your concern, but I wasn't being harassed, even if it might seem that way. He was showing misplaced concern for his minister's well being. When working as denominational advisor on 'indigenous religions' I was privileged to be welcome at pagan moots - a fact he readily accepted.
  15. Ali the Helering
    Actually well educated and reasonably rational individual, so it came as a real surprise. However, he is a recent addition to the church and came from one with a less open-minded tradition and more rural setting. I think that he didn't grasp the context and had a knee jerk reaction. Unfortunate, but by no means unique!
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    I just had an interesting experience of opening an e-mail, and finding one of my congregation asking if I was a pagan! Since I use Blogger for posting Bible studies as well as matters Gloranthan it carries my user name. He had googled Helering, and was now concerned for me....
  17. Ali the Helering
    You find something similar in Shakespeare, with Henry V's tour of the camp in disguise. "A little touch of Harry in the night". Interesting story, lousy ethics!
  18. Ali the Helering
    On reflection IMG it will be due to a slow motion curse of Pocharngo's, transforming wood to rock.
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    I read these as connected with Lentasia, a lost Aldryan forest if ever there were! The petrification l attribute to the Chaos Wars, although a link to the Uz is not impossible.
  20. Ali the Helering
    I would assume that one Liberator could lift another one's curse. Argrath should have no real difficulty. Removing a power of the Monster Empire gives him a motive.
  21. Ali the Helering
    The earth moved for you?
  22. Ali the Helering
    Heortling Mythology states "Maran took no permanent husband, just a lover when it amused her". (p20) The 'passionate and sometimes violent relationship' of the OP could be even more clearly seen when she throws him out when she is tired of him again!
  23. Ali the Helering
    True, except that the term is itself a bad pun, based around the word incubus. Succubus was a contemporary word for a prostitute, and it is simply a play on words.
  24. Ali the Helering
    Succubison is the Praxian variety, preying only on Uroxi😁
  25. Ali the Helering
    I'm not aware that anyone suggested that.
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