Akhôrahil

Fun story - I had one of the PCs roll Manage Household for Ancestor Day, and as usual with these things, she critted it. So afterwards, the Ancestors went about complaining in other steads how this isn’t as good as that nice lady’s and so on.

It’s like with corruption drives in China today - it’s not that whoever got punished wasn’t corrupt, I’m sure they were, but it was never the reason. Similarly, Roman corruption trials were only about punishing someone particular, or sometimes punishing extraordinarily excessive or damaging corruption by a governor when it rose to be a national problem. That there would be corruption was an absolute given - it’s baked into the system. Mark Galeotti has argued that it’s by design that it’s impossible to do anything in Russia without breaking corruption laws - that way, you can always find a reason when you want to punish someone, even though the vast majority goes unpunished.

The rare Slime Cow, Dorastor.

Yeah, we know the Short LBQ takes 14 days external time, right? Full LBQ takes a lot longer going by Argrath, I believe?

The Sourcebook is a good start. The Guide maybe isn’t the best start (it’s more like an encyclopedia, great for reference but perhaps not something you just read through as an introduction), but you’re going to want it anyway. I’m a huge fan of Storm Tribe and Thunder Rebels on the HW/HQ side and think The Eleven Lights is one of the best Glorantha creations of all time, but be aware they’re no longer considered canonical, in case that matters for you.

My positions: 1. This only matters for Otherside heroquests. 2. While big-T Time doesn't exist within the Otherside, subjective time is going to feel much the same. 3. Time will pass in the mundane world, potentially a lot. Not sure how, or if it all, it maps to the time spent subjectively within the HeroQuest.

Just push shields for a bit and hope no-one gets hurt?

I meant for economic upkeep. And since you get your Rune Point anyway, it’s a not any load on PCs, who will be building up their Rune Points regardless. PCs can be expected to pick up any subcult available - there’s little reason not to.

At full cult basis. There is no cost apart from social considerations to joining multiple subcults, so PCs can be expected to want as many as possible.

That seems like a very good reason for propitiation. 🙂

"Seep", "crawl", and "slither" are useful words here.

If I hadn’t moved to digital for most things almost a decade back, I would have had to find a larger place to live. 🙂

Or as was often the case historically, it was personally dishonorable for the executioner as well, but why would the leader be concerned about that - that's what the executioner is there for! In Europe, the executioner could often be someone pardoned from execution himself in order to take on the job, or something like that.

I think it's both. On the one hand, it really is just excessive battle fury and violent black moods. On the other, since it might mean you may have to put down a kinsman like a rabid dog, it causes Chaos. It becomes Chaotic when it goes overboard this way. Urain might not be a "proper" god, just a name for the phenomenon.

What I really wonder is what they do at Sacred Time.

Fun thing is, the second (or is it third? I think it's third) time Oddi kills Ralzakark in maybe 1630, the text says "Final Death". Which means that either final death isn't really final, or there's something odd about the Unicorn Emperor of the Monster Empire and he's not - or at least not exactly - Ralzakark.

Telmori for Risklands then, perhaps? Or is that in some other product?

I know it’s stated in LoT that Hahlgrim makes peace with Chief Renekot (who is Hakon’s son) and pays wergeld at some point, and that Renekot participates in the war and wins glory. I’m picturing that the PCs in my 1617 campaign will be local small-h heroes and top-notch local experts and guides/advisors when the war arrives, and a valuable resources to Hahlgrim’s side.

I was thinking the winter makes travel difficult and curtails Lunar activities (although they won’t be starving), and that the Lunars assume they’ve just won and don’t need to do anything except watch the population starve and freeze to death. On the other hand, it is reasonable to imagine that it could happen along better lines of communication, and the ”push” factor is immense. Extra-crappy conditions for anyone travelling, I’m sure.

Standalone minor cult or subcult to Maran Gor makes every sense. I expect this situation may well occur in my campaign once we resume it, and I would likely allow an Earth cultist to get to be God-Talker with waived or reduced entrance requirements if she’s the one who sets the whole thing up.

Come to the Monster Empire (we have cookies!)

Oh, I thought it was a whole thing with chaos tendrils emerging from the inner earth to cause chaos eruptions in various places, a whole Karia vs. Dorastor chaos-on-chaos war, and so on. But since I only ever heard snippets, it might just have been what I tried to patch together from them.

I'm interested in the Hezel Darong thing and chaos in Karia, which I hear is going to be a huge deal? Apart from secret lore transmitted only to The Elect, do we we know anything about it apart from the textbox in Guide p. 395?

The Unbreakable Sword breaking seems like a nice way to show what a state the cosmos was in? (Or quoting Iain Banks: "What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? ... The unstoppable force stops. The immovable object moves.")

Oh yes, and in 1625, after the war, there is colonization along the Sludgestream. The Oxhead temple is sending priests there to support settlement.