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no she was wrong, as I said doesn't mean Entekos isn't cool af, though!

Teelo Estara is the name of the living Red Goddess before She ascended. Valare was a Natural Illuminate and a Lunar and she preached the identity of Entekos and the Red Goddess, as Teelo was an emanation of the former. Teelo struck her down for this and told her to find the truth, so Valare heroquested through all of Peloria to learn the history of the Red Goddess and determined she had been wrong. She took the name Addi, a Pelorian name for Entekos, from the intense experience she had in one of her heroquests while interacting with that goddess. The Entekosiad is my favorite Greg text and I deeply recommend it. It's weird as hell.

They also claim Jernotius is Rashoran/a but I have some extreme doubts about that equivalency. Mega-extreme doubts. I think the basic issue is they call everything associated with Illumination the same deity. I think this is a tremendous error.

I think this specific thing isn't a Chaos injury, this is a Light/Sky injury on Darkness - this is pure Light or Fire rune mercing poor Mother Womb. but yeah, essentially the Empire of Light was like swiss cheese with Chaos

It's not out of hand to suggest politely that ethnic stereotypes are perhaps not the best idea. I wasn't even rude about it.

this is not a good description of either Comanches or Mongols. I've known both in my time, particularly Mongols. And Back in the Day, Comanches happily incorporated outsiders into their society in the thousands and thousands, and the Mongols were multi-ethnic states who wrote using a Syriac script inspired by the liturgical Syriac of the Church of the East; Genghis' primary wife was a Christian, like the rest of her ordo, and they sent polite formal letters to the Pope in Latin, Italian and Syriac before invading Europe, asking him to mediate European surrenders to avoid bloodshed. Meanwhile, the Pope had barely heard of Asia and did not know any Syriac. In short, maybe don't uh use ethnic shorthand, it comes off badly.

Ehhhhhh Nysalorean enlightenment already minimised Chaos. It's a side-effect of Illumination. Just because the Bright Empire turned to Chaos because Arkat kept coming back from Hell to kill them doesn't mean he forced them to actively pull on it. Some people have suggested that Arkat's own Illumination, hard-earned through running through multiple religions and dying a lot, meant he too pulled on Chaos in that last battle. I don't know. I don't think anybody knows. Certainly the the Seven Faces of Arkat show him as Chaos-Killer and as Gbaji!

I have a policy of not defending Star Wars films (except everyone hates the second trilogy) because I don't need to defend them. People can like or hate them. There's no need for people to scream about it into the internet. Let people enjoy things or not. I won't increase the anger-y fight about it because Star Wars isn't about putting bad vibes into the world. If I were to play Star Wars I'd... use the dedicated system by FFG. No offense to Chaosium but it's brilliant and does Force powers supernally well. The alternative would be using HeroQuest, because Star Wars is 100% not about rolling to see what body part you hit.

you think you are but you are, in fact, not

Jawas and Sandpeople are the descendants of the ancientmost human settlers of Tattoine before the later settlers like one million years later turned it into a megadesert from a lush world. The wrappings on both protect them from drying out.

I particularly enjoy the current display of runes in kabbalistic trees of life format!

... I assure you this is not a modern interpretation

... not just ladies, there's a reason queer organisations in Catholic countries are often called "David and Jonathan"

The cultural and linguistic diversity of PNG is the result of intense overpopulation of a region locked-in by mountains for literal ages; much of it is deliberate. In recent history we have records of peoples deciding to reverse all the genders in a two-gender language system in order to set themselves off more distinctly from a neighboring people and another group for the same reason changing sounds in their language: merging some and adopting others from a neighboring language they spoke as a second language. Caladraland likely has some diversity; there are likely speakers of Karkudja Storm varieties (aka "Orlanthi") as well as, if accurate, Vaybeti varieties. There might even be Jrusteli speakers. I don't know what Rune Branch Vaybeti would be; I'm not even sure what Rune Branch the Malkioni languages or even the Middle Sea languages stem from! The Vaybeti could be distant kin to the East Islanders for all I know, and I definitely have no idea what Rune Language their languages come from.

this is quite excellent heroquesting

Well it was a Very Long Time Ago; it's unclear how much actual Monotheism there was at that date. There was some confusion between the Queen of Sheba in living faith and in the wild imaginings of RPGs. I enthusiastically endorse the latter, I was merely misreading the context. I come from a scholarly background (as you might have noticed) so I'm used to people actually discussing things like "the Queen of Sheba" in conversation. Maybe it'd be clearer if I show you that this is what my twitter friends cry laughing about:

That's ... kind of late medieval Kabbala weirdness, it's not Torah! That's Alef-beys leBen Sire. I'm old enough to be reading that, I'm not sure you are! In the Torah she comes to Solomon, tests his wisdom, and when he shows it is accurate, gives him many gifts as a reward and returns to Yemen. In the Qur'an she is the queen of a pagan people who convert to monotheism when Solomon shows her his wisdom through tricks. And jinn are people. As a Muslim, I can say: as we are "people of earth" (that's what Adam means in Hebrew, "earth-ling"), so they are people of "colorless fire". Being a jinn doesn't mean you can't be an observant monotheist! Jinn in Islam are just people from a parallel kind of world. Jinn in Judeo-Arabic are like sheydim, but not to Muslims, where they are potentially dangerous but still people.

I understood from somewhere - and I have no idea at all where! - that originally the Twin Cults were separate cults of the Volcano that also were intertwined by the GL. This is all very interesting. In my head I guess my brain thought it sort of went like this: Veskarthan gets mythically enslaved. He often is defeated to make way for his sons in myths, so this is par for the course. So then we have the next layer, two sons, who we now know as Caladra and Aurelion. The God Learners wrote them together as a single cult, making them a reversed gender pair, separating the elements. Instead of two sons of Lodril with separate worship, there was now this weird Twin stuff with a male Earth deity and a female Fire deity. This made sense to me because the cult has a consistent problem with priestly incest. Can't remember where I read any of this!

who who thinks the Queen of Sheba is a villain

I know Durev is the cult of Orlanth Farmer, an alternative to Barntar, but I hadn't realised there was an actual mythic parallel between Durev and Orlanth rather than just a Hero assimilated into Orlanth's cult. Would you be willing to share your insight how he's a storm deity?

girl these modern heroes make the old-timey ones look bad, I would commit utuma to be worth one (1) Rey girlfriend she is so terrifying and so kind *fans self*

... He would have sent her away anyway because she's a daughter to be married, the real puzzler is why he thought Israel was a good investment. Perhaps Ahab's leadership of the local military alliance of smaller states qualified him, although they got their asses handed to them by Shalmaneser III.

yeah i mean irl Jezebel didn't deserve this despite being a queen (eat the rich); Israel was a completely landlocked, inbred hole of illiterate savages howling at the moon. It's not even clear why her father married her off to Ahav, like, what exactly was the advantage for him here? It's not like Israel had anything to contribute: it was poor in crops, herds, settlements, population, water, and arable land and it was desert-y and hill-y. It didn't even have anything like a decent army. meanwhile Israel basically was like a tiny region of angry, isolated fundamentalists that suddenly got access to New York City and its harbors, wealth, and prestige. Of course Jezebel was like "please kill these incompetent bible-thumpers trying to insist on destroying our culture and religion", like, Israel was a bunch of shepherds and dirt-poor farmers whose capital had no trade, defensive or agricultural advantage. (We still have no idea why Jerusalem was built, it's literally the worst-placed city ever, there's no reason for a city to be there.) Also they called her a whore for dressing wealthy. ??!??? Elijah had some issues with women.

... and i reckon it were a Christian wedding, or a "we're not getting Christian married but somehow the trappings are Christian", because a Jewish wedding is, uh

I actually don't know if the Telmori deserve the reputation they have; their god is their Hsunchen wolf deity, they just unfortunately turn every Lunar week into wolves in what is a pretty heavily settled territory. I don't know a lot about them, though.