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No need for CA - Daka Fal for instance grants "Spirit Magic: All" from start, and there are any number of ways to grab otherwise restricted spirit magic.

Likely only.

Shamans are incredibly powerful. Just a Sleep spell each turn that will be basically irresistible and a permanent Protection 20 or something is super good, and that’s just scratching the surface.

This kind of "avatar" situation is one of the biggest traditionally religious elements missing in Glorantha, I would say. Ancient Greeks could say "oh, and then I met Hermes on the road" and think it was nothing weird about that. You could certainly encounter someone on a this-world heroquest or godforming a divinity, but you don't quite get the traditional version. Correct. As did Zeus (as Zeus Xenios). In both cases, they were also doing their job as patrons of hospitality, checking up on how people treat strangers, rewarding and punishing accordingly. Zeus, of course, also went down into the mortal world to bang ladies. (Fun side note: In Sweden during the Caroline era (17th century), the Odin myth was either transformed or reinvented into the idea that king Charles XI, in disguise under the alias "Greycloak", went and checked on his subjects the same way.) If you're concerned about compromise-breaking, divine encounters could always take place in "soft places", where The Compromise is more of The Recommendation. In sufficiently sacred places (like Thunder Mountain, in my campaign), you slip partway into the godworld just by physically visiting.

Doing this pulled by some kind of tractor or tracked vehicle (skis in winter, bikes in the summertime) was done in the Swedish military until quite recently. It's apparently a total mess when someone falls, but I'm sure the Muskox People kids learn to ski before they walk, or something.

I could easily see them as some kind of Vadrudi - plus bad-tempered megafauna is one of the things, there. If they take after their herds and use head-butting to resolve conflicts, that’s so Vadrudi it hurts.

I usually dislike manga, because I loathe both the aesthetics and the story devices. Nausicaa is amazing. Incredibly good.

I don't imagine he cares. Chaos or not-Chaos, it matters not.

Big Shub-Niggurath vibes with that description.

What are you doing to make muskox hsunchen be different from Uncolings? Much of the material circumstances would seem to be similar, assuming they herd the muskox in arctic/subarctic climates. I lean towards area 2 - more northern, inland, and out of the way.

Some of the Ten Sons of Lodril?

Kinda queueing reading material up right now, I must confess...

I have literally opened that book once to one page, so that must have been the one, then! 🙂

I'm not sure where I saw it, but I really like the idea that loom houses are cubical and built halfway into the ground - basically, you start by digging out a half-cube in the ground (this is something the men can do, too!). Agree. And while tradition and runic resonance matter, there's probably not that big of a magical effect of having your house maximally square, especially not if it clashes with practicality. Some minor effort to keep it mostly kinda square goes a long way, and can be achieved easily the way you say. I would be unsurprised if the further you get out into the sticks, the more practicality determines form. For instance, I would assume that the entire reason for the longhouse is that it provides a lot of internal space while still using easier building techniques than achieving the same floor area in a square building? Also, when it's cold and up in the hills, keeping up the heating becomes a lot more important than maintaining traditional building styles, even if you think those are classier. This is why I like serious Nordic longhouses up in Talastar. In my Risklands campaign, I did describe Sartar as more of Switzerland and Talastar as more of Scandinavia when it comes to climate and styles, and I moved to more of a Nordic bronze age there (longhouses aren't just Viking - it's almost ridiculous how you have Danish longhouses for millennia with the same basic design idea, because it's just that good). Big fan of your Noricum suggestions for Sartar, too. That fits me a lot better than going all-out Mycene.

I was thinking more of more rustic and colder Talastar for this. D:LoD has longhouses, and I don't think it's been retconned.

I really like this Icelandic longhouse - it's a bit different from more southern ones, and you can really tell that this is someplace where you need to care about the climate (lots of stone, earth and turf). Plus it looks seriously defensible.

Moon Rock, for sure!

Also, she's kinda Molanni. I think.

What's the role of Talastar in the mid-to-late HeroWars, after the big raid against the Lunars and the deaths of Oddi and Ralzakark (and the destruction of much of the Bilini) around 1630? Related, do we have any snippets from or about the Bilinisaga outside of the box in Lords of Terror?

You don't have to attune regular MP storage crystals, I believe.

Even so, as long as your friends cast from their crystals, they will have all the MPs that they want.

You can do this for others by swapping around MP crystals. It means that given a very short break, everyone always have full MP. Considering the fairly slow normal MP regen and the fact that there an entire skill devoted to it, this does not seem intentional. This is the kind of thing that gives you 100 MP Sword Trances and the like, now only per combat instead of it being an actual effort. And breaking sorcery, isn't that like shooting fish in a barrel? 🙂

Their offspring being a bad-tempered, violently heroic man-wolverine with adamantine claws...

The Unicorn Emperor (or his replacement does). Does RWTSA? I don't know. Good from coming back from deaths, certainly. Final death, though? Does that word even mean something in that case?

A kind of workable synthesis might be if Harrek produces the Wolf-Bear as offspring with Dorasta somewhere in the future. Although if Harrek is the superhero incarnation of the Death rune, that might put his powers of procreation seriously in question...