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Can a shaman be eg. a shaman of Waha and also be a shaman of one or more spirit cults at the same time. I don't mean that a tribal shaman would worship Black Fang, but local spirits in some holy places in Prax. I don't think that it was expressly forbidden in RAW. And if the shaman misses one week's worshipping rituals, or can't get enough worshippers some week, will the spirit be forever angry at the shaman?

You asked what animals would Dara Happans use for pest control. So they wouldn't have to care about the opinions of alynxes.

Yeah, and they need extra training to make them crawl into the mouseholes voluntarily. Maybe they could use weasels or small dogs? Or they could have breeded domesticated cats, that have lost (some) of their independent nature. Speaking of domesticated cats, as far as I know, the only normal cat in Runequest material is Rat's (Frekor Firmfarer, Wind Priest of Orlanth) allied spirit in Raid on Yelorna. Maybe alynxes hadn't been found by Greg yet?

Farming is about settling down, but pastoralism is about moving your herds with the seasons.

Good point. One of my players' duck was thinking about getting an allied spirit in a rat. My opinion was that it would be technically posible, but requires him to persuade the priest. I checked the RQG book, and Argan Argan was still the only one that usually had rats. One thing that was a bit strange to me, was that now Orlanth too had hawks. I had always thought that they were emblematic to Sun cults.

Would rats be Stormy enough for allied spirits?

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I checked that table recently to see what one of my players' wizards can melt with his Finger of Fire, and realized that the melting point damage dices are the melting points in celsius degrees divided by hundred.

Here is a thread that makes a good case that only Sorcery spells can be cast on it: But which all Sorcery spells are eligible? One of my players would be interested in knowing if Boon of Kargan Tor could be cast on it.

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Maybe from this thread: Esvularings meaning the people who follow Aeolianism.

Yeah it will solve the problems, but in the meantime campaigns with non-Dragon Pass characters will need some kind of rules for their stuff.

Haha yeah, it's one of my players' favourite spells . And even though Steal Breath doesn't require POW vs. POW roll (if i understood the rules correctly), I made it require it IMG, so the wizard will get his POW increases from its use.

Orlanth Initiates can't learn sorcery. So I think that in my campaign I'll let the Aeolian wizard be an Orlanth lay member, but get POW increase chances from his Aeolian rites as if he was a priest. At least until the official rules say otherwise. Might be.

From the rulebook: A sorcerer’s understanding of a Rune is not based on their affinity with that Rune, nor is it a skill. Instead, an adventurer either understands a Rune well enough to manipulate it, or does not. CH worshippers are allowed to learn any kind of magic that isn't harmful, and LM temples teach a certain set of sorcery spells. Issaries worshippers can't trade for understanding of sorcery runes.

In that thread I linked Jeff said that Orlanth's Initiates aren't allowed to use sorcery.

Thanks! In this thread: Jeff said that: Which means that sorcerers can't be Orlanth's Initiates. On the other hand the rulebook says that: Unlike most Malkioni, the Aeolians view the Invisible God as too remote and too unapproachable to directly worship. Instead, they worship Orlanth, Chalana Arroy, Issaries, Lhankor Mhy, and Eurmal as personifications or emanations of the Creator. Of these, Orlanth is most important. But this doesn't specify if the Aeolian Wizard caste sorcerers have special rules that allow them to advance to the Initiate status in Orlanth's cult. Maybe the sorcerers have a different kind of Worship Invisible God spell than the Western people, and their spell gets them the POW increase chance, even if they aren't Initiates in a cult that allows learning sorcery.

Do sorcerers get POW increase chance from worship rituals? In RQ3 they didn't, has this changed?

Yeah, same here. Maybe it should be more symbolic. Great drawing nonetheless!

I searched the guide for gems and diamonds, and it does seem like diamond cutting is mainly a dwarf business, eg: P. 14 description of trade goods: diamonds (especially Falangian Diamonds) and other gemstones from the mines of the dwarves P. 250 Galeros Highpeak, Governor of Caladraland: Galeros was the first governor chosen by the clan chiefs after Belintar’s disappearance. He refused to relinquish the Diamond Diadem given by the dwarves to the First King and seeks to make himself king of Caladraland. Galeros resides in Low Temple. P. 416 Fornoar: The northernmost Nidan River Valley is a fertile region contested by trolls (from Guhan), elves (from the Erontree Forest), dwarves (from the Nidan Mountains), and humans (from Arolanit, Tanisor, and Ralios). Many claim to rule the region but no one really does. The valley is sometimes called the Mostali Gutter, for the Mostali of Nida dump their refuse upriver of here. This is a source of wealth to settlers and adventurers who wander amidst the rubble seeking diamond chips, slag, and discarded dwarven tools and constructs. P. 471 Gems: Precious (diamonds, emeralds, rubies, and sapphires) and semi-precious stones (such as amethyst, hematite, lapis lazuli, and malachite) are used to make jewelry or other decorations. The dwarves are the primary source of gems. Gems are in high demand in every region of Glorantha. The only non-dwarf diamonds I found were the following: P. 335 Diamond Hills: In 920, the great Orlanthi Hero Alakoring Dragonbreaker fought Drang the Diamond Storm Dragon hand to claw and wind to wind, until the Hero struck the dragon through its one true place and killed it. The broken stones of the dragon still litter the “sparkling lands” of Aggar. P. 488 Eastern Islands: Lugash (large city): The capital of Halmahera, this city is ruled by the Kurfilli Dala, the hereditary High Priestess of the local temple to Laraloori. She is the guardian of the magical Dawn Stone, a huge pink diamond presented to her ancestors by the goddess Thella. Lugash is a major center of perfume making in the East Islands. P. 730 Red Moon: Zaytenera’s Palace (Plain of Glory): This is the only white spot which is visible on the surface of the Red Moon. It is called the Diamond Diadem, and also the White Palace. Up close we see that the palace is a huge crystalline structure whose only permanent inhabitants sit motionless in luminous meditation chambers. Of course the Red Moon palace and Drang might have not been literally made of diamonds, and the Dawn Stone might have been made by dwarves. And in Glorantha, unlike in Terra, there are materials that are even harder than diamonds; the Truestone and its refined form, Adamant. So perhaps some temple jewelers could have access to the temple's Truestone when they are carving diamonds for the High Priest or the main altar etc.

Gem carving was was a known art in ancient world, eg. Roman amethyst carving of Caracalla. Etruscan Satyr. But diamond cutting seems to have been invented later. The sorcery angle was something that I hadn't thought about I haven't read much about this, but none of my sources say that the ancient Indians knew how to cut diamonds. Would you mind sharing your sources? Or do you mean that they knew how to polish the facets by rubbing diamond against diamond? The Diamond Mountain dwarves are the most isolationist of all dwarves, but stealing knowledge is the stuff of Heroes, so perhaps it has happened. And there's also this excerpt about Teshnos from the Guide p. 436: Sabzevar: (small city): This city is sacred to Solf and his many wives and daughters. It was founded in the God Time by a demigod Hero who first stole the secrets of metal-working from the dwarves of Diamond Mountain. Each year, the priests of Solf present annual payment to the gates of Diamond Mountain in compensation for this ancient crime; each year, the payment is taken without response by the dwarves. Hah, the uncut diamonds and the carved ruby wand of the Raus hoard were exactly what made me post this thread.

Which cultures know the techniques to cut diamonds? Dwarves I think, but does anyone else? In Terra it was a late medieval invention, and therefore unknown in the bronze age.

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