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  1. If Broyan was marching on the New Lunar Temple, the march would have occurred on more than the mundane plane. Broyan would have already been spending his evenings grappling with Lunar defences on the heroplane, and heroquesting for magical abilities to weaken Lunar defences. The Lunars on their part would be busy deploying all sorts of exotic magic and conducting dangerous heroquests to spiritually pacify the vast area of effect of the new temple, and mine the vast magical potential under the temple to fuel their sorcery. It's no mystery Broyan encountered something horrible. Broyan might even have been torn apart by his own guilt made manifest - seems like a very Lunar thing to do.
  2. I think enormous chaos would normally ping the sense chaos from a distance because it affects a large area? Like the magical presence of the bat affects a large area around the bat? As for chaotic behaviour I suspect you need to have begun to transform into a chaos being, have an actual chaos taint to ping the bull sense, like developed a chaos feature. Otherwise Krjalki who cast conversion would ping the bull sense, even though the book of magic says they do not.
  3. The goddess “cured” the bat, which probably involved illumination? Maybe she chaos gifted the bat intelligence for long enough so the bat could answer a bunch of riddles? Or just mind linked and did it directly somehow
  4. If illumination teaches that law and chaos are interchangeable, yet Storm Bull's sense chaos implies that chaos is something separate and different which can be sensed, how can an illuminated Storm Bull believe law and chaos are the same thing, yet still be able to sense chaos?
  5. Maybe Waha is the the law equivalent counterpart of Cacodemon, a divine intervention option is to summon avatar of Waha.
  6. Keep it low powered. Like a whodunnit, with a secret Malia worshipper spreading disease in the village (just as well one of your PCs chose to be a shaman right? Shaman characters have special abilities to fight disease spirits). Even worse, some villagers are protecting the Malia priest, because the priest has convinced them he/she is actually working in their best interests, placating the goddess of disease, rather than a futile attempt to engage costly healers to properly root out the problem. There are plenty of other low powered threats, like someone in the village who is secretly collaborating with the Lunars - though you could make it morally ambiguous, when they finally find the traitor, the traitor could explain they only cooperated because the Lunars are holding their son hostage (are they telling the truth?!). Perhaps if their son is being held, he is being illegally detained by a corrupt local commander. Obviously the PCs can't take on an entire garrison, but just as well one of the PCs is a trickster - and can use invisibility to sneak in and rescue to hostage. Or maybe the Sage PC (just as well one of your PCs chose Lhankor Mhy) realises they can mount a legal challenge to this illegal detention, and use the Lunar courts to expose a commander who is using corrupt means to accuse wealthy locals of sedition, so he can enrich himself by looting their goods. They might even meet a Lunar official who is concerned about the corruption, and the effect corruption is having on local acceptance of imperial rule, and is grateful for the help of the PCs in exposing and rooting out corrupt officials. Eventually when characters gain power they could take on more powerful enemies, and begin to interact with great events. If you start too powerful, in the first session "OK, I swing my sword of ultimate permanent death at JarEel the Razoress, the greatest living Lunar hero, and the Lunar empire is defeated". So what do you do next?
  7. Encourage roleplaying. Everyone power gaming is just tedious. Encourage players to explore unusual cults like Trickster or shaman, even though they are not necessarily that good at killing things. If you end up with a monoculture party of Humakti death lords, every scenario is "we draw our swords and kill it" - then they get stuck when more subtly is needed.
  8. Arkat was a superhero who underwent apotheosis, so he did walk the mundane plane, then he left. Then he returned in a confusing way, the multiple Arkats. Or maybe Argrath is his true avatar. Maybe they're all avatars of Arkat. Perhaps apotheosis is something which superheroes who want to uphold the integrity of Glorantha have to do, to prevent the return of the gods war. The interesting thing for me is the avatar suggestion hints at higher Waha powers which can be accessed. Waha did some pretty impressive things for a minor deity, he cleansed Prax of the lingering presence of Wakboth after Storm Bull crushed the devil under the block. But few of these feats are reflected in the rather sparse collection of rune magics Waha worshippers seem to access. So Avatars of Waha might have access to some interesting anti-chaos powers, and heroic abilities to change the courses of waterways and other interesting feats, which could be pretty useful in a desert.
  9. EricW

    Stars in Hell?

    OK, I'll bite - what strange magics to these blacker than black stars grant to worshippers? If normal stars are light in darkness, what does darkness in darkness do for those who follow this esoteric spiritual path? Can you visit these hell stars?
  10. You could have a lot of fun with murders in CoC. If players fixate too strongly on the wrong NPC, have the NPC turn up dead, if you can possibly do so in the framework of the scenario. "Oops, got that one wrong..."
  11. I would interpret "acting chaotically" as a small chance of receiving a special visitor during holy day ceremonies. Unknowingly including someone who has behaved in a particularly vile way in a holy ceremony, even as a lay member, is an invitation to spiritual pollution, a weakness in the fabric of the ceremony which could allow chaos to seep in. Of course, a particularly wicked person would be in immense danger if they accepted the chaos boon in the middle of a holy day ceremony, any hero quest re-enactment which involved defeating evil could draw in the newly minted chaotic as the ritual enemy. Which sounds like a great reason to perform such ceremonial challenges and re-enactments of defeating evil. If the challenge is answered by someone unexpected, the village has just discovered hidden chaos in their midst. This could also explain why the Lunars have such a hard time dealing with hidden chaotic abuses, compared to Orlanthi. Lunar ceremonies don't draw hidden chaotics into real danger the way Orlanthi ceremonies do.
  12. Krjalk the traitor has hidden chaos abilities. The Conversion of Chaos spell grants a beneficial chaos feature without an obvious mutation, but does not automatically taint the user with detectable chaos, even if used more than once. The new version of the spell only lasts a day, but the old version is permanent, which I think was more fun. So the temptation is you get a beneficial chaos feature with no apparent drawbacks, but every time you are touched by chaos you have a cumulative risk of becoming an obvious chaos mutant.
  13. If initiating into a chaos cult sets up sense chaos, what about propitiatory initiation into Malia? Or is Malia not chaotic anymore (hard to keep track)?
  14. There is a strong motivation to allow friendly strangers to visit temples, the more people who worship at a temple, the closer the god is to the temple, and the greater the magic worshippers at the temple can access. Of course any fear the stranger might be hostile would trump this motivation to bring the god closer with more worship.
  15. i think lycanthropy is a bit redundant with chaos, Krjalk (including the Hellwood variant) and the Red Moon already offer hidden chaos spells. Casting a few Chaos Gift spells would be every bit as terrifying as a lycanthrope transformation. Having said that you could easily work it in as a special chaos feature, or a gift which can be obtained via some horrific ritual.
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