Darius West

While I like the look of these, where is their armor?

Perhaps Rasout means "orphan", like Foundchild means "orphan"?

And yet we never get dogs in their stat blocks... Just sayin'.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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".

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.

Much though they hate to admit the fact, Clay Mostali aren't robots, they are robot wannabes, trapped in too too sullied flesh.

Waha is restricted to male members of Animal Nomad tribes. Morokanths are the strangest Waha worshippers. Nobody else gets in. There is probably a modified form of Waha worship that is practiced by Butchers and Leatherworkers in Sartarite society, but they are limited to learning Peaceful Cut.

What is coming after the Lunar Way? I am hoping Chaos.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I must strenuously disagree. At no stage during high school are youngsters utterly separated from their parents unless they are being sent to a boarding school or military academy.

So then there is the issue of Clans having temples that are in no way subordinate to Tribal temples in the Orlanthi system.

I had a good long look and came up blank. I can't even find a write-up of Zebra Fort. Do you perhaps mean the Raid On Yelorna scenario in The Big Rubble? If not I think you have that post-Hero Quest sickness called the "Mandela Effect" by some. If that proves to be the case, please understand that you are in the wrong reality and need to return home asap. I've been stuck here for years and it only seems to get worse.

Provided.

In what way is the world a better place because of the Unholy Trio? Thed tried to use disguise and subterfuge to obtain sex from Orlanth, and that is sexual assault. That is a sexual attack on Ernalda's main husband. Not all of us buy into the illuminated nonsense that up is down, purple is orange, evil is good, and Thed is a victim. You know a tree by its fruit, and there are exactly 2 broos who deserve to live, and I'm not entirely sure about 1 of them.

Derik Pol-Joni the founder of the Pol-Joni's parents were murdered by Sable Riders. He created the Pol-Joni because the Animal Nomads were raiding into Dragon Pass with Jaldon too often. It was Sartar himself who brokered peace and amity between the Pol-Joni and the Praxians. The Pol-Joni and the Sartarites now likely worship Eiritha as the cattle mother instead of Uralda as one of many results. The Pol-Joni are not going to stop riding horses just because of Praxian disapproval. Did riding Zebras save the city of Pavis from Praxian aggression? No. It actually encouraged it, because it is perfectly fine to raid another Praxian tribe.

Yes.

Yeah yeah, Thed's not to blame. She didn't want to be Ragnaglar's girlfriend. She didn't want to unleash Chaos and destroy countless lives. She's just a victim in all this. Chop her head off Erannina Chan, we all know she tried to sexually assault Orlanth.