Ali the Helering

Yelmalionions? Or since they are little versions of the god, Yelmalichalottes?

or they are individual deities who are far more interesting than being retconned into a creaking and redundant monomyth😁

Easier, indeed. Not my point, however.

That is not dead that can eternal be propped up And with foul stenches even death may die.

Being purely practical for a moment - in an environment like Prax are you really going to leave a dead body undealt with? Hygienic storage will be a nightmare.

However, currency does not require coinage. Some of the earliest currency involved receipts that functioned as promissory notes (eg Hammurabi's Code clauses 120-125). Weighed metal served long before it came to be stamped, so the shekel was acknowledged as having value as a weight long before it became a coin. (Actually two values, depending on whether one is using the standard shekel or the heavy shekel.) Shekel actually originally meant 'weighing'!

Your Politico-Religious Propaganda May Vary😇

I think that Heler is the perfect depiction of gender fluidity, and her/his followers don't see the need to change their body form. They are also perfect pan-sexuals. Water flows where it may....

Any news?

and after Argrath? One is always in awe of Greg's vision.

If you Google "Biblical names of God" you will find the estimates range between 3 and 967 for that one volume alone. Similarly the, 7, 10, 50 or 100 'names of Jesus'. As ever, if you want to emulate the RW in your Glorantha, go as wildly complex as you can!

Often, but not always. Also there may well be rootless wanderers as a chaos-killing warband, whose morality I would never bet on!

While there remains doubt that the abbot said these words – also paraphrased as "Kill them all; God will know His own", "Kill them all; God will sort his own", or "Kill them all and let God sort them out" – there is little if any doubt that these words captured the spirit of the assault,[24] and that the Crusaders intended to slaughter the inhabitants Quoting Wikipedia's article on the Massacre at Beziers. I can easily see them working in the same manner, sadly. Why bother waiting for confirmation when you can slaughter everyone and burn the village to the ground?

Oh, the horrors of the Chaos Feature "Appear Harmless"

I believe the traditional answer you are looking for is "The sound of one hand, clapping". One should never try to delineate the ineffable. Always f*** it!

A hazardous stance to take with respect to an island where at least one site has a demonstrable history of worship for at least 1,900 years of at least four different cultures, with the faint possibility of making that 3,900 with a fifth.

The sources are by no means unanimous in this. Certainly there was no course in Malta until 1853 (I think), but races on rather rougher surfaces had been taking place from perpetuity. Interestingly, when the course was laid out it was in conscious imitation of Roman design.

I don't things have changed much on Malta since the fall of Rome

IMG they are part of that accumulation of local storm deities who the God Learners identified as a single deity under the title Orlanth. Firstly because it fits with RW Bronze Age religious structures. Secondly because it is truly MGF.

I would do it the other way round, with the 'bridge' and 'away' folk as supporting characters

If all you are interested in is function, no. If you want meaningful complexity, yes.

I know some fans have suggested that, but I don't recall seeing it in the source material. If you could point the way I would be grateful. Otherwise I see no reason to suppose it to be the case.

A very interesting question, in the light of the Humakti broos of Dorastor. As Storm Tribe put it "Few non-humans (especially Chaos creatures such as broo and bagogi) can maintain this discipline for long, so few join. Which means that some do, and can maintain their position in the cult. So for them, perhaps, he is.

The Guide is only a Guide.

Who is Elmal? Elmal is the loyal thane, the sun on the mountains, the new hope that arises with the morning. Yelm is a perversion, the Evil Emperor. Yelmalio is the weak, pathetic kinsman, with neither fire nor horse magics. Elmal is the true sun. Destroyer of Chaos, withstander of underminers, the one who regains his power due to the love and tears of his followers. He is mighty. We have been Gregged. Blessed be the name of the Greg.