Ali the Helering

According to the Wikipedia article on the 'Plains Indians' maize cultivation became widespread several hundred years earlier

Try 'Declare' by Tim Powers. Cold War occult spy craft, not directly mythos, but...

You just have to wait for a VERY long time 😁

I weep for my childhood, polluted beyond repair.....

What can certainly be referenced is Storm Tribe p203 or Sartar Companion p250. "After death, worshippers become agents of revenge sent by the goddess to earth to answer the curses of women wronged by men." I think that will include victims of rape.

Zistor was far more closely associated with the forces of Law than those of Chaos. The OOO was able to activate opposition to a disproportionate focus on one aspect of reality.

YGWV, but this seems a little absolutist

OOOOh funzies!

No alloy was in question, but a suit of scales made of the different rune metals. As I said, like the maryannu armour which in some cases had alternating rows of bronze, tin covered bronze and enamelled bronze or tin.

Since the majority of games I have seen described fall within a Prax-Esrolia-Peloria crescent (ish) it is worth appreciating that there are other very good and pragmatic reasons to avoid rape. Babeester, Vinga, Gorgorma. Transforming into a broo may be the least of your troubles.

Thanks to all of those who have posted helpful replies. I will undoubtedly find a way to use them IMG.

My thoughts being that they won't face cult restrictions on elemental metal use

Sorry, my language was insufficiently clear. When I said that the illuminate constructed it, that was what I meant, not implying that they were a smith or enchanter themselves.

No need to point it out, it was implicit to the question. I was thinking of the maryannu scale of the RW Bronze Age.

I suppose there's also the question of which religious vision holds sway. My Glorantha is (I hope) rich and very, very varied with all the runes of HW and Ilh2. The cities of Dara Happa seethe with rival cults beneath the Plentonian-Yelmgathan nonsense espoused by the Yelmites. Orlanth and Ernalda are umbrella concepts covering many local cults, identified as thunder brothers and subcults respectively.

Dara Happa is a shared myth, not an entity, with profoundly different cultures from city to city. The Lunars may be doomed, but they are happy post-modernists without DH's misogyny. Unfortunate expansionist tendencies, though. Sartarites are arrogant and exclusivist, with some very dangerously powerful and socially validated homicidal cults. Esrolians are Minoan hippies. Helerings are happily bi and Welsh. As for the Mostali and 7-of-9, don't even go there..... Uz are a modern take on Neanderthals. Your Glorantha Must Vary!

Whilst absolutely agreeing with your sentiments, I don't think it is overly common as an issue in Kerofinela, and I am sure the original user of the term did it in all innocence. Thread drift?

Elsewhere on the forum there have been discussions concerning metals, but since this is a general Gloranthan question I decided to post my question here. If an Illuminate constructs a suit of scale mail using alternating scales of different rune metals (since unbound by cultic strictures) what might be the result? This isn't asked by way of munchkinnery, but simply academic interest...

Of course, it needn't be phallic. "Hey Umath, even you should be able to find this!" Yes, very questionable taste, but no worse really.

The stories of the surviving kamikaze pilots were quite interesting, involving very mixed public reactions.

The issuing of credit might work in a metropolis, otherwise I would limit them to trader cults.

Just don't tell Yelm.... 😁

How long a piece of such a soft substance would retain perfect circularity I leave to your imagination and any metallurgist handy! Any Wheels from the First Age might resemble a Bolg, unless an active magic constantly returns it to original form.

Yet the portions of a 'Piece of Eight' retained their value when cut from the original. Presumably due to the magical powers of the Spanish Hapsburgs.

The beauty of a Wheel is that it may be cut along the spoke lines, avoiding the use of silver as change. If you want a realistic Bronze Age economic system, you have no coinage but rather tokens indicating value (Bank note precursors) regulated by strict 'command economies'. No shops, but goods regulated and/or disbursed by the government.