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I'm not sure I understand the difference between Heroic and H/HK? Hasn't it always been RRR? (Also, if you haven't seen RRR, PUT IT ON IMMEDIATELY IT'S UNHINGED GLORY, it's on Netflix, and if this doesn't influence your Orlanthi anti-Lunar Rebellions there is something wrong with your soul)

i mean, Starkey's a polemical figure and has literally always been one; his interest in history has always been explicitly nationalistic. Philippa Gregory is a novelist, full stop. I really think comparing her to Dan Brown, who is one of the worst writers I've ever read in print, is warranted. I'm not alone in that opinion, either: his writing is literally difficult to endure. (This is aside from the Graham Hancock-level of his plots; even if we don't like it, people are allowed to write crazy shit. Neither pretends to be writing actual history.)

Vingkot was an alternative (Northern) form of the god we now call Orlanth. Making him "Orlanth's son" was a way of euhumerising him.

the real-world shibboleth was explicitly used to disembowel rivals (the Gideonites conquered the Ephraimites, who were identified and murdered using the shibboleth), and historically this was also true: the Bruges Vespers, the Sicilian Vespers, the Gutte Piers purges, Trujillo's genocide of the Haitians...

I think it's notable that an ancient form of Rashoranx was the Atarks/Goakstart/the Groke

yep. the hats are specifically mithraic, too.

i recognise those runes! they're Voynichese

is this a good moment to ask if the Harshax zone is just "Sorcerous Republic of Gilead"

so as His runes and roles suggest, AA is about communication and community and about the Dark (specifically Trolls and kin). This encompasses his role as trader, interpreter, and as organiser of trollkin communities. Since the last group straddle the divide between Dark and non-Dark better than other Trollfolk, it's not a surprise that He is interested in them. Part of organising any community is self-defense, so while he's not a direct war leader he provides Trollkin with martial prowess. An individual Rune Lord might be interested in this in particular.

the Crimson Bat eats souls, so this would only be useful insofar as you'd be getting rid of walktapodes

if he's sent to jail for refusing the subpoena from Congress, how is that going to work, exactly? I've been wondering

you gotta be a boomer, nobody younger has any belief in the future

other way round! even sillier

please imagine this but with a flamingo. preferably standing only on one of the flamingo legs.

these deserve a special mention, for sure: scorpuck? scuck? scorpiock? durpion?

uhhh Darkness has a few questions

Arkat was literally turned into an Uz-Uz, and did not appear human again until after the Gbaji fight.

they're called kitori, or else you can do the Arkat thing and be reborn as an Uz-Uz. (the kitori were originally Darkness Folk but not specifically uz originally, but then became Uz-Uz by affiliation with the Great Mother)

wait what

The style is 100% authentic Maya, though, for deities of Darkness; I've forgotten all my Maya reading but I know my images. This is the Madrid Codex. forbidden baloncesta also, they play the game again for the mesoamerican ballgame, scoring through the hoop was very very rare. in high stakes games, which were a kind of death ritual, the losing team was sacrificed, at least among the Maya.

I guess I don't understand subcults - in the sense here of "Orlanth Rex" v. "Orlanth Adventurous" - too well. If you were a Vingan and became King, how does that work?

i mean yes, he's Umath, but he's also Umath FILTERED. He's not Urox, Kolat, Humakt, Serenha, or Vadrus. Every generation down is Decision made. Some say Vinga is Orlanth. Others say she is his child. Both allow for her to be the same as Orlanth Adventurous, theologically. Either she's one generation more specific, or she is a preferred aspect.

should i ask why these quaggas are all named for German and Dutch cities or no

https://www.britannica.com/story/are-zebras-white-with-black-stripes-or-black-with-white-stripes Black with white stripes

it's the practical effects, I think, that we need to remember have consequences: the Yelm worship we see in the current Glorantha publication of RQG is not the Yelm subcult of Dara Happa, and it matters