EricW

I wonder if there is room in future to jack this up further, like for every thousand people the bat eats within the last 24 hours, there is a probability the glowspot will empower lunar magic beyond normal maximum? So Lunars feeding chaos can gain access to devastating powers to win battles, but it emphasises the dichotomy between use of the overtly chaotic bat to crush resistance, and Lunars presenting themselves as a peaceful alternative to the barbarian rabble.

Is that absolutely true? Perhaps Wakboth was able for a while to grant horrifying magic to a thousand high priests of unthinkable vice, corrupt, perversion or mutation and their followers?

Surely the Devil does have otherworld presence in the sense that you can encounter the devil on appropriate heroquests. My theory has always been that chaotics who successfully heroquest to change the outcome of a key encounter with the devil or other major chaos entity, to try to bring a piece of the devil's power back to the mundane world, they find it difficult to return to time. For them chaos won, and the ultimate outcome of paths where chaos won is destruction.

Yep, I'll withdraw that one, I can't recall the source.

What about every 500 years the devil returns? Given it is still possible for people to be destroyed by chaos, and for powerful chaos gods to arise inside time and threaten the compromise, Wakboth is still influencing the world. But only the most powerful and lucky heroquesters can penetrate the truth which is the fabric of this world, to find the devil at the base of creation? The manifestation they bring back to the world needn’t look like Wakboth, the embodiment of the chaos rune can present itself in other forms?

Isn't facing the bad man part of awakening a fetch? Or maybe the horned man, for chaotic NPCs awakening a fetch? Surely in a sense awakening a fetch must be a mini hero quest, at least as much as any initiation ceremony is. If a shaman meets a god on the spirit plane, are they protected by the compromise? Is there a risk of meeting a god who is not fully bound by the compromise, like encountering Wakboth if a Shaman wanders the spirit plane in Prax? Are gods accompanied by large spirits who might not feel bound to respect the compromise?

Dogs are natural hunters, who love gluttony and mischief and hearth fires, yet are fiercely loyal to their masters. I would have thought they would be natural companions?

Are there any gods who only communicate through priests and rune lords, whom a shaman cannot contact and worship?

Firearms are interesting from a combat POV. It's pretty difficult to aim and fire if someone is gripping your hand, gaining control of the weapon is what I was taught in martial arts, though I never got to black belt. But the further you are from the target the better your chances of a clean shot, though beyond point blank range, aiming becomes more important. So if someone is 1ft away and aware you are trying to shoot them, I would have no problem applying a penalty compared to say being 7ft away.

Thed could have been Ragnaglar's daughter by Ernalda - that would make the whole devil conspiracy especially yucky.

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.

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.

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

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?

Maybe Waha is the the law equivalent counterpart of Cacodemon, a divine intervention option is to summon avatar of Waha.