Ali the Helering

Woohoo! Corpsicles!

Alternatively, they might be mobile but greatly slowed and prone to shattering

Then it would need a title... perhaps something like 'keyword'? 😁

That's why I suggested hesitation rather than rejection. Your Visualisation of Glorantha Will Vary, but there are some that are, perhaps, closer to the source than others.

Given Sandy's history with respect to Glorantha and its inventor, I would be very hesitant in suggesting that his views were incorrect.

Just when you thought there wasn't another critical hit table to experience.....

I believe that you are looking for Lumaxovoran (sp?) mentioned in the old Gods of Glorantha

Pick your ancient economic source and go with it. Those I think make most sense treat the explosion of the black and grey markets in response to the Price Edict as destroying what little remained of the frail stability of Imperial economics. It was ignored because the damage had been done. The prices are a snapshot of the idealised prices desired by the powers that were. Interesting, but theoretical. The West Wing had an excellent episode which displayed distancing from the economic realities, as President and Staff are ignorant of the price of milk!

It was, and remains, a very popular theory of shamanism amongst some anthropologists. It was very much the hallmark of the Cambellian Monomyth, which Greg attributed to the Jrusteli in Glorantha. It is worth remembering that Greg wrote the Jrusteli up as a wildly dangerous people with no respect for local faiths. He had a fine mind for sarcastic 'digs' at his former lecturers. Many post-modern approaches favour the assumption of shared concepts as more of a human than a religious thing, with the religious aspects being best observed in the differences. I think that following this approach allows for far more variation, which I acknowledge is contrary to the present methodology. As will be obvious if you read back over my posts, I think previous approaches were both better approaches and far more MGF.

Unfortunately there is nothing besides her place within the Unity List at 48, between Glaumalos and Verendekelm.

Thanks☺️ I have been a student of shamanism for several decades, and have always had an interest in how people like to simulate it. Michael Harner's concept of 'Core Shamanism' falls into the tempting over-simplification of God Learnerism. Greg seemed to go down that line, but it isn't the only approach one could take. Harner emphasised the perceived commonality of experience, whereas I think what makes shamanism especially interesting is the variety of experience. Playing a shaman's spirits could IMO produce an interesting 'community game' as an alternative to a 'clan game'.

Returning to the OP, would it make for an interesting game if the players played a shaman's fetch and spirits?

RW of course, but Hapshepshut (sp?) was a female Pharaoh Another element to be considered with the Dragon Sun is that it was a powerful internal movement for reform. Cf reign of Elmatrayan, 'discovery' of Dismanthuyar, instant conversions etc etc

Yep, exactly what I said. A religious change acknowledging a new political reality, enforced yet overthrown by a traditionalist backlash.

I never suggested that such a thing would be warmly received, nor that there wouldn't be any backlash. The Dragon Sun was a perversion of normative Raibanthi theology, yet reigned for 30+ years. RW religious reform is frequently the successor to political and economic reform, and has, generally, to be enforced. Would it involve blood and horror? No doubt. That doesn't rule it out.

Using GRoY and FS I have been able to identify eight distinct Rites ( which include the Ten and, once, Eleven Tests) and six modified forms. Tradition is easily mutable, and if a dragon can be an 'impossible Emperor' I don't doubt that new Tests and Rites could be produced to sanctify a new political reality.

Rakenveg, if you don't mind! 🐰

To quote the Fortunate Succession, final para under the heading The Third Return "The Rite of Rejuvenation has misled some people to believe there has been more than one emperor since then, and the foolish historians of Darjiin even insist upon numbering them. Link to footnote 1- "Their numbers do not even match the number of our own masks". Personally I have a lot of respect for the Darjiini!

Oh yeah, investments. The general rate of interest across the Bronze / Early Iron Ancient Near East appears to have been 20%. A specific 'new Sumerian' deal is at a very generous 8.5%, while a specific Neo-Assyrian one is at a hefty 3.3% per month. I can only find evidence for Simple interest rates, not Compound. If you want a wider group of pricing structures, although from the later Iron and an imposed pattern that brought the Roman Empire to the brink of total collapse, have a look at Diocletian's 'Price Edict'. 😩

I am afraid that it involves research if you want to construct a price system that in any way parallels the RW. House rental varies between 1.5 and 4 silver shekels per year (always strikes me as astoundingly reasonable) and the only price I can find for house purchase was 5 talents and 30 mina of lead! That computes to around 20,000 bolgs. Land purchase varies between 1 and 3 shekels depending upon distance from the settlement.

Only those my triffid masters permit me to use🥦

As far as I can tell the (much-debated by epidemiologists) lethality rate that is generally accepted for measles is around 25%. While Rhazes regarded it as worse than smallpox, he doesn't specify how it is worse. There are no grounds to assume that he is referring to the death rate.

So be calm, and heed Qizilbashwoman's wise counsel. As I said, I bow in her direction so I shall not otherwise respond.

Yep, that is your choice, precisely. To assert that it is therefore true is sloppy science. Anyway, I bow to the Qizilbashwoman. Unfortunately I cannot find a rolled up newspaper sufficient to swat a VW.

Oddly enough, supposedly scientific atheists have no monopoly on truth either. They aren't scientific either since they have no way of testing their atheistic hypothesis. 😇