Alex

Very nice, and welcome to the forum! Great name, too. 🙂 Gonna go out on a limb and say that one's "falx", too! But before I'm accused of doing nothing but recycle old and weak material, I'll note that Italian seems to have a actual (slightly) distinct term -- falce dacica.

Interesting question! I guess it's less strictly necessary for Orlanthi heroquesters than we might once have thought, because we now have a pool of "customary" Tricksters, as well as the bonded, covert, and lynched categories. Presumably still the best option, as it's according to the precedent of the myth, and so you know who's starting in that position of the depth chart.

Ist "Falx", jawohl! This translation lark is easy... 🙂 Is that the same thing as a "Balester"? Or is this an actual bow made of actual stone? I'm seeing the term "Schweizer Pfeil" for that on a couple of iffy-looking pages, but I think they might be brute-force translations of the English Wikipedia page. "Swiss arrow (also known as a Yorkshire arrow, Dutch arrow, Scotch arrow, or Gypsy arrow)." Hello, Equality Commission? I have five ethnic hate crimes in one noun phrase to report...

Arguably the "Insect" qualifier is largely redundant. (He says, outraging turtle and "arthropod, misc" cultists everywhere.)

I was idly curious what an amentum might be, so on the basis of my google- and wikipedia-grade research, apparently the Catalan, German, Spanish, Italian and Swedish word for it is "amentum". I similarly approve of your choice for the French translation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greeks_Have_a_Word_For_It You're very welcome. 🙂

You're right, and that doesn't sound like the Orlanthi at all. *stabs source of heat, light, and cosmic order* "Hey! Why is it so cold, dark, and disorderly around here?! It's an outrage, and isn't the sun-emperor-stabbing I voted for!!" One way that Greg put it -- and I'm sure he said different and arguably inconsistent things before and since, Your Greg Will Vary -- was that the Orlanthi consider anything that don't understand to be Chaos. Which is pretty much in line with Ian's take. Now of course the Orlanthi do have myth-maps of many, many gillfuls of weird crap, whether they entirely like them or not.

That seems an easier one, to the second string to the spell's bow, to wit that it: "detects and locates a specific individual on whom the caster concentrates". So IMO if the PC is using it with the in manner of "WT[Underworld Location] has that [Interjected Gerund] Chaos Snake gone?!" it's clearly covered. And presumably they would sensibly do so, if IYG a fleeing "enemy" isn't covered by the "intending to harm them" part.

I defer to your judgement. Especially as I've already embarrassed myself on this one with my fat-fingered multiposts. (The submit button wasn't working, honestly!) They can always move 'em over (while deleting my oopses, indeed).

Absent an official corrections thread, "be bold" and start one! Be the mods' star pupil, or whipping boy, as the case may be. 🙂

In and around here, I think! https://www.chaosium.com/runequest-weapons-equipment-pdf/ Or used stuff bundles of used bills into an envelope and send to the Michigan mailing address, as you prefer. 🙂

Or think of it as commission/omission bias. Or the sort of random weird geas some cults have. Yelmalions don't consider (let's say) right leg armour to be foul and evil, it's just that some of them have a magical and ritual obligation not to wear it. Note that they do have an "exception for chaos" exception in their "if I magics it, you no kills it" rule. Which particular type of bad Orlanthi? They seem a little like unhappy families in Russian novels -- so many different kinds!

The first 'more sophisticated than that' answer would just be one that does some sort of case analysis of which lunar cults are involved. Not all of them are associated with the Chaos rune, nor do they all require Illumination. Of course simply pointing this out might indeed enrage a Stormbull to murderous fury, so if that's your acid test... 🙂

Some need to be saved from themselves... He types, in the middle of one of his own games...

That's a spectacularly lovely looking document. (Well, the first 11 pages are, at least!)

Sure. What I don't get is how that factors out into Daka Fal practice, vs 'normal' god-compatible clan-ancestral rites (assuming they're still a thing), vs any other shamanic practices. Granted there's a clear conceptual distinction from the Kolati tradition, but I'd guess there's scope for a degree of double-jobbing there too: what's the shamans per clan norm, anyway?

But ancestors-in-general may not be the Daka Fal cult specifically. In particular the Sartarite 'clan ancestors' stuff -- I'm guessing likely not, but who knows. Yeah, it seems to me like an odd way of looking at it. Obviously the Gloranthan gods are pretty highly personfied and anthropomorphicised -- within the limits of the Compromise. But looking at Daka Fal that way seems a little niche and idiosyncratic -- why are we expressing our resentment of the gods by emulating DF in much the manner as if he were a god? But maybe that's a secondary presentational detail. I can certainly blame the gods for the fact that I have to die, and DF/some form of ancestor worship is a viable vehicle for that. So same difference, arguably. I certainly think there's plenty of scope for "the gods have a lot to answer for", "I don't have any more truck with the gods than I have to" and "Sacrifice to the gods? That's taking food out my children's mouths!" sentiment, among the Heortlings and otherwise. Look at what Heort himself had to say on those topic, it was a mouthful. Actually, no, a whole series of mouthfuls! So that's certainly a possible form of ancestor worship right there -- the spirit cult/heroforming exercise of backtalking great-great-great-great-great-grandpappy (or thereabouts). It's God-Learnerism either way, of course, whether of the RQ3 cut-and-dry schematic abstraction sort, or of the more 'tash-twirling "bwah-ha-ha-hah, let's dangerously experimentally equate these two entities and see what happens!" stuff. Probably two different schools that wrote snarky peer reviews about each other, back in the day. So whatever we say about this stuff, really, it's pot-on-kettle crime. And Praxians and Orlanthi are quite a bit more related, genealogically and mythically, than the bare minimum "Runic Adam" connection.

Right. As Gloranthan history and myth rather lavishly illustrate, all options are open, between "World Council" and "stabby-stabby-stabby".

Well, I did say in terms that it's be muttered under their respective breaths. Not (necessarily) bellowed at the top of their lungs during a lance charge. 🙂

There is of course a "fandom" site for the latter, if you can tolerate Wikia's cookie-force-feeding practices. I don't think it aims to cover anything 'post-canonical'.

Yeah, that one breaks down for me too. That also seems like a case where we'd sensibly have to have an analysis by Praxian, Orlanthi, "other ancestor worship, misc" takes, whether or not they end up differing in actual attitude. Not a new mystery though, already like that in CoT. BTW, the subject line of the post isn't strictly consistent with the OP, or with these tables: DF isn't the most "hated", he'd the most "hateful"! Very few other cults are Hostile to DF, but DF certainly likes to dish Hostile out to others...

For a moment of cognitive confusion, I thought this salt worker was riding an electric scooter. Which would be quite the power move, in more ways than one...

That conjures up a much more John Waters (the American, not the Irish one, for clarity!) image of Heortland than I'd had hitherto! Which kinda works on a couple levels...

Probably a bit of both. Daka Fal has a particular mythological and psychopompous role in connection with death, over and above what you'd see between Orlanthi and Kolati say, never mind with religions -- like the Grazer Yelm cult -- that explicitly mix the two. In a lot of cases they'll be very compatible -- "of course you're allowed to worship our gods and our ancestors; you kinda have to in fact!" -- but whether this is in the form of this particular cult/tradition/format (often it won't require the full shamanic toolkit at all) is potentially a separate question.

Actually I searched the interwebz for the best summary, and the BRP forum won fair and square. 🙂 As is so often the case! TBF it's a 300-word writeup, and I'm not sure the "gods vs spirits" stuff (misapplied worship strikes back!) merits squeezing out more directly applicable material. Granted it does leave the CCC rather under-explained. No doubt the upcoming Cults books will go lavishly into the detail and nuance of this!

We got one, of sorts, in the hot-off-the-presses Cults of Prax: "The cult dislikes gods in general [...]" The Hostility-fest in the CCC starts in Cults of Terror, though, glossing it in part by that book's "new" (Holy early '80s revisionism, Batman!) system for joining multiple cults. Evidently DF is pretty down on that in most cases, the exceptions mostly being the more "shaman-friendly" ones, logically enough to that extent. That may or may not correspond to their interpersonal dealings when different cultists meet generally. Personally I suspect Daka Fal has extremely diverse cultic attitudes, even within a particular cultural and religious context (the classic CoP Praxian DF, the Heortling Darhudan, etc) never mind between different such. Especially as there's something of a tension here between DF as a specific mythological figure, and as a coathanger for Ancestor Worship generally, as was explicitly the case in the RQ3 nanocult. This post may also be relevant to your interests: