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Rituals for becoming a Rune Lord or Rune Priest
Darius West replied to Karlak One-eye's topic in Glorantha
Ahem... Yes... Please return the iron armor on your way out guys. -
Rituals for becoming a Rune Lord or Rune Priest
Darius West replied to Karlak One-eye's topic in Glorantha
Have you ever read "The Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follet? The scenario you are describing sounds a great deal like that book. It is about a desperate stonemason whose kid secretly burns down a church so his dad gets the nod from the local clergy to build an cathedral. Then they get involved in all the local politics whether they want to or not. It's a pretty good historical fiction novel that is set during the Anarchy. -
Rituals for becoming a Rune Lord or Rune Priest
Darius West replied to Karlak One-eye's topic in Glorantha
That's a D&D idea of what an adventuring life is imo. It mainly doesn't fit with RQG. So you let them start with land, then you take it away from them. Now they have no resources and plenty of reasons to adventure. Problem solved. -
Rituals for becoming a Rune Lord or Rune Priest
Darius West replied to Karlak One-eye's topic in Glorantha
Please, understand my attempt at humor here, but murder hobo-ing around when you're a scruffy refugee on the run from occupying forces is fine for an initiate, but once you hit Rune level, you have a full time job. Adventuring isn't a side hustle you get involved in perhaps once a season, you're in the Army now. You will potentially be leading your tribal fyrd, or be involved in the Sartar Magical Union. Unless your king has sent you off on a job, you are expected to muster with the Clan whenever the Lunars next cross the Bush Range. You may only play a "wandering party" style of game, but I don't. When you become an important person like a Rune Lord, your life becomes a lot more settled, whether the character or player likes it or not. Yes, you can become a victim of your own success, even in Glorantha. This is not to suggest that you will never travel again, merely that it will be less frequent. Remember also that it is 1625 now, and there's a Hero War on. You are part of a clan and a tribe again, and an important member of those organizations; you matter. What you do matters. You likely get only 1 adventure for personal profit per year now. The rest are on clan or tribal business. That doesn't mean you don't get paid or can't plunder as you go, but you represent something bigger than yourself when you do. There are lots of opportunities for roleplay and adventure, as a Rune level, but they are stories about consolidation, building, land development, politics, intrigue, military campaigning, oh, and Hero Questing. Yes, really only Rune levels with at least Clan level support can Hero Quest with any reliability. Of course if a character would prefer to bumble about after treasure in ruins and travel the world, perhaps Rune level isn't for them? Of course if they found a relic of their deity that could serve as a mobile connection of sufficient power that it would allow them to regain RP, perhaps they could become a self-funded and independent Rune level, owing allegiance only to themselves? That too is a possibility. -
A pity I got the older edition.
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I love the idea that Lanbril initiates and rune levels can use any temple, because they steal RP from other gods. It makes up for the fact that they have so much trouble getting the necessary numbers for a shrine or temple.
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Rituals for becoming a Rune Lord or Rune Priest
Darius West replied to Karlak One-eye's topic in Glorantha
Completely fair, I just wondered. -
Rituals for becoming a Rune Lord or Rune Priest
Darius West replied to Karlak One-eye's topic in Glorantha
Agreed for the most part. I think economics should be what delimits the number of Rune Lords a cult or clan can support. If you want the position, you need to earn it by making your support cult or clan rich or powerful etc. I mean, some kings might be able to offer 2 hides of land and 20K worth of Iron to anyone who qualifies as a RL, but it is a "big ask" for smaller outfits. -
Rituals for becoming a Rune Lord or Rune Priest
Darius West replied to Karlak One-eye's topic in Glorantha
While I like the look of these, where is their armor? -
Perhaps Rasout means "orphan", like Foundchild means "orphan"?
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And yet we never get dogs in their stat blocks... Just sayin'.
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Casting a Rune Spell takes 1SR. Heal Limb is the "go to". If you are out of RP, you are out of luck. No chance to cast if you are unconscious; then it is someone else's problem.
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If the Agimori did that, then they should also use them as hunting animals imo, given Brother Dog. Certainly nobody is arguing that Animal Nomads don't use dogs to guard their camps, but do Agimori?
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I could certainly see that an Agimori hunter who is well travelled may adopt an animal companion to help with hunting, and given Foundchild is their cult, I'd pretty much insist on Brother Dog. But that would be for individuals who are away from their tribe and need help hunting. Brother Dog will help. It is also the case that Animal Nomads don't use dogs for anything other than guarding their camps. Brother Dog is still a shamanic option however, just as worship of Foundchild is an option for Animal Nomads too, as Foundchild is Waha's old friend, and so is Brother Dog. I don't think Agimori have camp dogs though. I do include a small "warrior society" of Animal Nomads who use dogs to help with herding, who call themselves the Dog Brothers. I might argue that if the Agimori don't have camp dogs, where do they get their stock for hunting animals in you system, but YGWV.
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The obvious answer is that spirits don't have an infinity rune, but gods do. When a shaman sees a god, the god seems impossibly large and powerful, blotting out the horizon. A shaman will know that this means they have an infinity rune, as they are part of the very weave of the world, and blessed by the Spider herself. Now some major spirits have very high POW and enough connection to their rune to grant rune spells to those who venerate them with worship, but they have no infinity rune, so technically they can still be defeated in spirit combat, regardless of how unlikely that might be. Gods can't be defeated in spirit combat. At some level, Gods are just very big spirits, but they are also more than that. Perhaps that is why shamans can't get much more magic out of the Gods than 1 point or so? A lack of insight? Personally I doubt it. I think shamans can turn into rune priests if they learn the inner secrets of the spirit they venerate, but that is a form of "spiritual marriage" that most shamans are reluctant to enter into, as it would cost a good portion of their spiritual autonomy. That's my opinion, anyhow.
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That is a fair question. I would suggest that worshipping non-spirit deities is hard for shamans. That is not to say impossible. The shaman will need a physical object that has been in contact with a deity during God Time (it can be a place). When they set up their worship, the shaman is likely effectively creating an Associated Deity shrine, such as one might find in the temples of friendly deities. They are unlikely to get more than one Rune spell from such a shrine, as while the shaman can effectively self-initiate by spending a point of POW to form a link, they simply don't know the full mythology and rites of the god in question, and so cannot do more. The shamans are generally limited as to how many followers they can attract to their shrine as well. Case in point, the Praxian shamans can contact Pole Star, who is an important solar deity with quite an arsenal of Rune Magic, but the Praxian shamans can only access the Rune Spell "Captain Souls".
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While we know Agimori are the children of Lodril and generally worship Foundchild the hunter, there is never any mention of the Agimori employing dogs in their hunting. Do Agimori employ dogs in their hunting? I personally think they don't. Agimori are noted as taking a particular delight in hunting, and dogs would make that easier, perhaps too easy, which doesn't correspond with the Agimoris' regime of training hardships. For this reason I don't think Agimori Foundchild worship includes Brother Dog. I am interested in people's opinions on the matter.
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Much though they hate to admit the fact, Clay Mostali aren't robots, they are robot wannabes, trapped in too too sullied flesh.
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What is coming after the Lunar Way? I am hoping Chaos.
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Hagran the Dirty's loyalty is to Hagran the Dirty. The Lunars barely register that Hagran and the Pavis Royal Guard exists. They are far more interested in the Halite Mine.
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Zzabur is/was mortal. We can be sure he broke caste, and used spells to increase his longevity. Now, however he has been zapped out of existence along with Brithos since the Second Age.
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The Zebra Tribe also have their own bandit tribe in the Big Rubble. The answer is "yes". Derik Pol Joni was good friends with the Grazelanders, and Joraz Kyrem, the creator of the Zebra tribe was Pure Horse. The Pol Joni and Zebra Tribe have good relations.
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On the contrary, Orlanth could have had Thed slain for her attempted sexual deception. Instead he showed her mercy, and instead sought to educate her in why sex thru deception is not nice, by using his trickster aspect to come up with an educational counter plot. Remember also that as a beast goddess, Thed is likely promised to wed to Stormbull, like many other livestock Beast Goddesses (Uralda, Nevala etc), but she covets Orlanth, and hopes to get a powerful child by him via deception. Instead goats become rejected among the Orlanthi for good reason. It isn't Orlanth who does the wrong thing. It is Thed. And then it is Stormbull. Stormbull could have realized Thed's distress and stopped, but Stormbull is a god of animal passions, and just as he doesn't stop when he goes berserk, he didn't stop. The price Stormbull pays is high. He sees chaos destroy pretty much everything he cares about. He himself has to face down the Devil. This is the revenge of Thed, mother of the Devil (but who is the father? Ragnaglar? Or Stormbull?). Ultimately it is Glorantha herself who sends the Block to save Stormbull, so Glorantha herself chooses Stormbull over Thed's side. Ultimately we must admit that all of Thed's choices are evil. She shouldn't have sought to seduce Orlanth. She should have understood her acts were wrong and understood the lesson when she realized that her attempt at sexual deception had won her another case of sexual deception. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes (and they don't come more stupid than The Bull). Thed shouldn't have teamed up with Ragnaglar (the mad pervert god) and Mallia (the STD goddess) to destroy the world. Thed always does the wrong thing and makes the worst choice. I mean, you know a tree by its fruit, and her fruits are Wakboth, and the broos. Thed is not "women". Thed is a pervert who wanted only power from day 1.
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No. Thed TRIES to rape Orlanth. So Orlanth should have just exposed Thed's deception and had her executed for trying to rape him? His real crime then was being merciful and instead trying to teach her why sex thru deception was wrong, as it didn't seem she understood. How many Thed stories are there? Not so many. I would suggest it is due to a lack of material in print. I mean, I could make up legends all day, but I prefer to rely on printed material for sources where it exists. It has nothing to do with nostalgia. I will even look at HQ material, even though it is largely discarded now. Does he though? The abuser was Urox, not Orlanth. Urox could have sensed Thed's distress and decided not to, but he didn't. That wasn't just a punishment, it was a moral object lesson in why sex by deception is wrong, specifically so Thed could see the error of her ways and repent rather than die. Orlanth was not the victimizer, he was an educator, and a trickster.