Ali the Helering

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.

IMG it would be a matter of local perception, some seeing the disorder he embodies as chaotic, others as what happens when someone 'goes totally urain'. Differences in understanding could provide interesting social conflict hooks. Of course, it can be an option as a cult change due to relife sickness - Urox without the social niceties, Ereltharol without the cheerful disposition....

If you can direct me to a goose emoji... I have NEVER claimed to be either sensible or sane. When the verdict from a brain scan came back as 'normal' I demanded a recount! As I said, sorry all. I shall try to keep my flights of fancy under better control 🙏😋

I have a tendency to assume (wrongly, I know) that everybody reads Pratchett, where Rincewind had a continuing confusion between geas and geese. Sorry all!

Yep, just like the Gods War. Almost as if....... Give Elmal back his Cthughan powers!!!

I thought that was the chaos aspect of Imarja 🦆

Apparently 'Fate of Cthulhu' has been described as 'Cthulhu as Skynet'. Nyarlathotep as Skynet might work as a good match, with Yog Sothoth being accessed for temporal transit.

Thanks for the sanity!!!!! 😁

Or an old copy of Rolemaster 😴

Try The Night Land as one possible setting, or innumerable post-alien invasion survivors-huddled-&-hidden amongst the ruins novels. 👽🤖👿👾

Mayan bat deity, assuming this to be a genuine query, given the availability of Google..... 🦇

Lynx anti-perspirant gets everywhere (Tindalos advises me that in the USA this is Ax)

Interesting choice of example, since Londo is a servitor of the series' equivalent of the Old Ones, and Garibaldi points out the Centauri's kinship to batrachians. Weird, man, weird 🧟‍♂️

Camilla (aside to Cassilda) "No mask? No mask?" The King in Yellow seems to support the costume defending SAN theory. 👹🤪

Nonetheless, even if that is the case, it is still an important cult for Shargashi. Since one of Shargash's titles is 'Wielder of the Skyspears', that seems to emphasise the importance rather than diminish it.

In the Enclosure writeup for Shargash it is mentioned under the 'other important cults in Alkoth' heading, so I have to disagree. I hadn't previously considered it, but he strikes me as remarkably similar to Yelmalio, given cultic access to Sunspear at the highest levels and a puritanical approach.

I take the approach that Orlanth is a title rather than a name, and that each Thunder Brother is an Orlanth.

What exactly leads you to this massive judgment???? Good is in the eye of the beholder. We know, we gouged it out earlier, and very good it tasted too👹

Not at all clear as to how you see dealing with genius loci or totemic spirits as healing, and mediumship doesn't cover all of the aspects of necromantic activities of some shamans. Simply because some cultures have other ways of dealing with spirits doesn't mean that it isn't part of the shaman's task in others. If you want to be truly specific and return to the people from whom the word 'shaman' is taken, then Buryat shamans also undertake the practise of interceding with the tngri, those great spirits some class as divine. Not just healing, honestly.