EricW

Wouldn’t being part of a pantheon which includes friendly chaos gods, and being a god which encourages illumination and has no qualms about using chaotic magic, wouldn’t that be an issue for lightbringer LM?

If they attack at the wrong moment they could get caught in a hero quest, perhaps representing Sheng Seleris and his hordes invading the moon. If they succeed they carry away magic stolen from the moon - perhaps magical immunity to some Lunar magic. If they fail, or rather if the Lunar loyalists realise what is happening and correctly enact the return of the Red Emperor and the defeat of Sheng, the raiders not only end up captured and in very big trouble, but they might end up magically damaged in some way, perhaps lose the ability to communicate with their god for a time (isolation in "Lunar hell"). But the rival khan winning implies the rival khan placing religious faith and the good of the tribe above temporal power - enacting the ritual defeat of Sheng would require the current leader stepping aside, and appointing a new khan during the heroquest (the returned "red emperor"), who could then magically and temporally defeat the intruders and win magical boons for their tribe.

Be a bit like gasoline on a BBQ - be sure you don't get your hands tainted by the chaos you are using 🙂

Ah but chaos is Oakfed’s mystical enemy - the fire is as hot as it needs to be to scorch away the chaos.

Say an illuminate who has the ability undetectable as law or chaos wears a chaotic magical ring? Does the ring detect as chaotic? What if the illuminate swallows the ring? Is it still detectable as chaotic? If the ring is detectable as chaotic even if swallowed, what about chaos ooze? At what point would the chaos ooze no longer be detectable as chaotic?

But surely the tainted silver would be consumed by Oakfed's fire - like nothing left afterwards.

What about the sleeping hero vanquished by the angry storm, who when he awakens will usher in an age of freedom, liberating followers from the very laws which bind Glorantha, granting vengeance to the oppressed, and bringing to an end the tyranny of law?

How about Lunar damage to the mythic landscape? The PC participants in a minor quest, to bring blessings to the tribe, and everything goes horribly wrong - the PC is unfairly blamed for failing a critical part of the quest, bringing bad luck to the tribe. They are exiled in the hope of expiating the bad luck.

There is one very specific time when Troll and Elf stood together - I fought we won. A hero cult where the lesson is divided we fall, that division between Elf kind and Troll kind invites the return of chaos, would fulfil this mythic requirement.

Illumination would also work :-).

Resurrect the victim- find the body, dedicate themselves to restoring the wrong.

Penitents do have a choice though - they can accept their just punishment and take their chances in the afterlife, or accept a final opportunity to redeem themselves in this life.

I would have thought riddles would be made available. Illumination might even be seen as a form of therapy, liberating incorrigibly wicked sinners from the constraints of their self destructive beliefs, helping them embrace the grace of the goddess. The goal after all is for people to change their behaviour, and becoming illuminated is a path to profound self realisation and change. Of course, sometimes it goes horribly wrong.

Eurmal tried to do the dragon seed soldier thing with a pinch of bum fluff but it all went horribly wrong... OK that theory probably isn't cannon...

How about a child in the crowd. Argrath lashes out, drawing gasps from the crowed - until Argrath holds up the poison pin which was in the child's hand. The child of course is not what they appear to be.