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I'm late to this party but comedy gold teamup for a truly nightmare scenario. I definitely immediately thought of Drax the Destroyer when I thought about the Uroxi.

SS officer Wilhelm Landig would differ in your opinion about who invented it. Source: Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke 2002: Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity, New York University Press, page 3.

We don't have stats for Her cult, but she's a Storm deity. I don't know how much active cult there is for her at this time, however; the Lunars are the real contenders for the Middle Air these days against Umath.

She's Umath's eldest child, she's not a sweet breeze, but a storm goddess. Her feast day with Dendara brings storms and much-needed rain to Dara Happa - a role that suggests that Entekos, called "Addi" in Western Peloria, which refers to a phallic stick in the Entekosiad, was the female husband of Dendara, much as Orlanth is the Earth's husband elsewhere, but has been minimised to nothing under the Yelm and subsequent Lunar cults. (A quick reality check that the Lunar Empire has ruled for over four hundred years, so we should never forget the Lunars.)

also a lot of them probably wear tall clogs to show how holy they are and/or don't bathe

it's a famous Nazi image, a specific kind of sonnenrad, what do you mean "Black Sun" isn't a German term!

I see that they had trained militias and a very different structure. Thanks for the tip. ... but they still didn't worship Yelmalio, he was still Daysenarus at this point 😉

Monrogh Lantern only died in 1582 after rekindling the nearly extinct cult, this is anachronistic. the Sun Domes were only officially restored as a regional power in the early Seventh Wane in 1579 when Tarkalor Trollkiller, later King of Sartar, granted land to the Sartar Sun Dome.

Krashtniks risk facing serious vengeance from water entities and the Devouring Mouth is about ... well, devouring. At minimum her Tongues will demand deeply fraught assassination work. Water divinities are a lot more active and have living servants, you're just setting yourself up as the threat of the week. I suppose a Lunar affiliation could work, but you'd be beholden as an asset and have political officers and Lunar crew, not real piracy. Better off finding a non-Chaos cult like a Lanbril-like one.

I'm gonna third this recommendation, it makes me think about how to handle scenarios all the time, a neat game

I honestly thought Daka Fal was just a specific example of [insert ancestor] specific to Dragon Pass; like, an example of how ancestor worship works, not a monomyth deity. Why would the Artmali (just to limit things to humans) have ancestral deities even vaguely akin to a Daka Fal?

The Zaranistangi were in Teshnos before the Dawn. They had been driven out of the Eastern Isles by an antigod, apparently? This bit is unclear to me. It happened in the Great Darkness. They had lost much of Teshnos by 265 ST and by 400 ST the Teshnan Principalities were all completely independent states. That was the end of their control of Teshnos, although the worship of Annilla remained important there as one of the five high gods. She seems to have replaced the Earth goddess role as grain mother there.

Teshnos now is rice country and worshippers of Dayzatar; what was it when the Zaranistangis ruled at the Dawn and then moved inland? Likely the source of papas fritas. Annilla-Rice-Goddess is an adjustment to the change in staple when potates were replaced with a more climate-appropriate foodstuff.

I'd guess the Zaranistangi, also Artmali, brought them to Teshnos; their worship of the Blue Moon remained a constant. Likely the Middle Sea Empire then shipped a lot more; potatoes store well

uhhh i thought this was orthodox fiqh

we're in the Five Days Outside

my assumption is that once, there were unique foods in each direction, but they moved as Chaos and settlers and refugees happened.

how have i said "the Red Army is invading" but not "the Crimson Bat is feeding"

I... disagree. You could have a thoroughly Lunar Empire, living according to the demands of the phases of the Goddess, ebbing and flowing by day. It's just that this is such an alien experience to the existing, massive metropolides and civilisation already existing there that it wasn't going to work. Such a thing would have required a societal collapse or other similar "world"-ending crisis to offer something better than what already existed.

This is a very practical solution but it is also at odds with the essential changing nature of the divinity. In many ways, the conflict within Lunar faith is how does urbanised civilisation square in the face of such a primordially chaotic deity (who is, also, a little Chaotic). Particularly at issue is the difficulties managing barely-literate chalcolithic city-states under the banner of "all is change" when their indigenous heartland patron city pantheons are largely Solar ones are associated with cosmic order and the neighbors are extremely unfriendly. Some measure of accommodation must be had to keep the system functioning in the Empire proper.

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I just think we do a disservice to Pamalt to call them broo. When there's actual broo, they're broo. There are doubtless real broo just like there are... well, there are sort of trolls. Adjusted trolls. They're imports, explicitly. Pamalt deserves its own unique cosmology. Maybe they are called nge-visibor and mechanically, their reproduction is broo-like, and they also stem from Primal Sins. But whatever happened to Genert's universe is an alternate reality. Pamalt lived. Vovisibor was not a patron of goat hsunchen, and his sin was not the same. The entire mythological economy of Pamalt is unique and deserves its own treatment. There's no Red Moon, there's no Orlanthi ethnemes outside enslaved populations stranded by Waertagi for funsies. It's a different world with a different primal struggle.

please tell me you've watched Reign: The Conqueror (the anime, not the anime film), because the Pythagorean cult attacks against Alexander the Great are amazing. It's by Peter Chung, the Aeon Flux writer-animator.

Broo are related to the Three, a specifically Genertelan Chaos bit. Pamaltela has their own kind of Chaos and any broo there are immigrants, as metcalph observed. I don't find RQ3e to be the most accurate of settings for Glorantha, detail-wise, although they're no Mongoose; i think "broo" here is a stand-in for "chaos monster".

N.b. I don't believe there are actually broo there, broo are a Genertelan speciality, and any broo in Pamaltela aren't issuing forth from that place but rather arrived by boat somehow. More importantly, the monsters in question are horrendous in size and scope, that's the issue. The Nargan beasts are monstrously powerful; no broo would be anything but low-level feeding chow for the kinds of beasts gestating there.