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damn that's seseine? who is the weeping Light figure on the other side of the Monster Woman?

sir which one

it's entirely unavailable, that's why i'm sad

What I appreciate about Hârn is the gargûn. Yes please, well-detailed communal mammaloids from an alternate universe. Hârn is still pretty much old-school white people and frankly, the religious elements are terribad. Just take the gargûn (I wish I still could get my hands on the book I used to have about them) and add them to another setting, presumably one that learned more from Glorantha. There's a reason the Elder Scrolls series are beloved, and it's that despite being pretty Eurocentric their primary influence is Glorantha. https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Dragon_Break

never order barbells, the shipping costs are stupid

respectfully, these are the same spells

idk but in Prax tapirs herd the cultures

who, uh, is it

the real question is what happens to a person with a Dragonewt rune if they are slain. Do they get a chance based on their rune to be reborn, dragonewt-style, instead of passing into Death?

Doesn't the Empire also have a Chaos management secret service as well to prevent Chaos overspill? Or did that go out with the previous editions?

ok listen shaman doesn't have the word "man" in it, it's a Tungusic loanword. It might be a loan-borrowing from Sanskrit shramana. But it's shaman and the plural is shamans. It's not men who sha.

NFTs are terribad, super mad about this whole scenario

Ethnic tensions are intense but there's no parallel to the racial paradigms of the modern West in Genertela any more than there were in ancient Rome. Romans were an aggressive, violent coloniser society that nonetheless including a large contigent of people who we would have recognised as Black, including most of the Roman nobility of Britain. There were Arab Emperors. All of these people were Roman, and that is how they were categorised ethnically. This conversation is getting extremely emotionally loaded. I recommend we take it down a notch as a community.

for specific shamans there might be only because of their needs, but that's no different to the temple to Kero Fin being located at the mountain: unique to that specific cult. there's nothing un-urbane about shamanic practices per se.

short and long: imagine if the anthropologists could just do your rituals and change the stories on you and it worked. like, super glad you figured out heroquesting, but that's a special hell level of colonialism

Maybe six hundred years ago they might not have approved

I don't think the Death rune works that way. You can be a worshiper of a Death rune deity and bear offspring. But you can't stay in your role and be a parent. A Humakti personifies death and they can establish relationships with other people, but they lose their family and clan to be a Humakti. I don't think barrenness is what it's about, but about refusing the role: you surrender the child at birth because death sets you apart from the living. Of course, Gorites can always use herbs to prevent pregnancy in the first place if that is a risk for the kind of sex they are having. This is always an option.

Babs can have children, but her family is monsters and adoptees. Her role is like that of a fearsome aunt or a grandmother: she protects. It's not about her womb children. She adopts and she protects the family. The thunder beasts are her children, but they aren't literally born from her.

it's only natural that we are going to reinterpret texts based on our own perceptions and understandings of the world. the fictional monomyth is also interpreted by us as participants. this has lead to textual reinterpretation many times in the past, such as when Greg rewrote fundamental things about gender because he realised they were sexist. it's good to understand the texts but we're gonna spin in chat

Landing connected the image from Wewelsburg to racist mysticism in the postwar era; that's also why I cited NGC. It's just older than Mögle-Stadel, who did largely popularise it. It's not like Landing had a wide audience.

the real question is whether Gorakiki is a kind of Earth goddess?

if you want to worship a mother of animals for invertebrates, the Trolls have it, and for water creatures, see the same. For birds, idk, but the mother of animals doesn't bless us with chickens; she's herd mammals through and through as far as I can tell. I don't know who would be reptiles. Just to clarify, reptiles are a branch separate from both dinosaurs-birds and from mammals. This surprises many people.

horses don't count either! well, I think we can just remember that horses are actually just birds made into mammalforms. I'm not throwing out the baby with the bathwater so much. It's already shaking up the world for a lot of people to feather dinosaurs...

chickens are dinosaurs, but yes

Also snow is important for the spring. In many places, the snow might not be ideal to live in during the winter, but the mountain snowpack is actually your source of water year-round, it's where the rivers and aquifers come from.