Hi, I'm mostly new to Glorantha and Heroquest. I've been reading extensively for background material from the Runequest Classics line and the Guide to Glorantha, but only have the HQ: Glorantha book for Heroquest rules.
Looking at the Heroquest: Glorantha rules for Lunar magic, I thought I understood them but now I'm confused by the "Magics" line in the Seven Mothers subcults listings. In particular, I'm not sure what the Jakaleel subcult does and doesn't allow.
So the Lunar Magic section tells me that characters with a Moon Phase rune can use it to create Glamours that mimic Rune magic, spells, or spirit charms. Doing so directly rather than as an augment is a Stretch unless the character is an initiate of a New God and using the glamour appropriately to that New God or is using a Lunar Grimoire.
So far so good. The Seven Mothers subcults on page 190 are where I get confused. There's a "Magic" line that for most of them says "Evocations, Glamours, Grimoires". OK - it gives examples of appropriate types of magic for each Rune, so we learn that an Initiate of Teelo Norri will use Fire glamours differently than an Initiate of Irrippi Ontor. I'm not sure why Glamours are listed separately, since as I understood it all Lunar magic is glamour. I'm also not sure why Grimoires are explicitly called out, since Lunar Grimoires aren't otherwise tied to a subcult - it seems you can use a Lunar Grimoire just fine without initiating, right? But at least it communicates what sort of non-Stretch glamours the New God provides.
But then there's Jakaleel. Her cult lists "Spirit Magic, Lunes" as its type of magic. What is that supposed to mean? Do her initiates not use glamours at all? Do they not use Lunar Grimoires? Both of those sound odd to me for the "Mistress of Black Magic", but then again she doesn't have cult strictures or a Little Sister version. Does her (exclusive) listing of Spirit Magic and Lunes mean that the other subcults don't in fact provide Charms, or ally with Lunes?
The Dying Moon rune can replace Spirit, and the subcult notes that it will be the keyword for the Lunar Tradition. Are Jakaleel initiates exclusively Spirit magicians, then? And if so, is there much difference between their practices and what you'd see from a non-Lunar Spirit Magician? We know they're tied to the Lunar cycle - do they retain any of the cross-school flexibility of the other subcults, or even non-Initiated Lunar magicians?
