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* double post due to database error *

oop I can't find the images I'm looking for that fast because there are like 1000 Glorantha books so in the meantime, here's the non/semi-canonical but entirely entertaining Six Ages video game illustration of Alkothi raiders with both head-bound skulls and actual Shadzoring visible and a shot of a Dara Happan ambassador with a Alkothi warrior guards.

I mean, as I was reading RQG last night the text observed the practical difference between the two was the number of worshippers. Maybe the interaction between the monomyth and cultural myths is the growth of individual spirit cults into God-size chunks. (Well, and in the case of living demigods, their ascent to divinity, which is a separate step apparently involving some kind of very stressful heroquesting.) Wimps? I guess you'd disapprove of modern Koreans offering Starbucks coffee beans to the Pole Star now, then. (Yes, this is real.) I strongly believe it to be head-binding; it's even illustrated somewhere - the Guide, maybe? The Alkothi might have done it to imitate the Shadzoring, but I think it was a Pelorian practice.

It's interesting to consider that the Pentans wouldn't have interacted with the "Cattle Sacrificer" - an obvious source of wisdom, see haruspices! - as sorcerers, but as shamans. It's doubly interesting because Pole Star is a really crucial deity throughout Eurasian shamanism, which Arkat wouldn't have missed when writing about shamanism... But the Pole Star is usually really important and the tentpole is often the bottom bit of it...

I mean, Irippi Ontor's runes in older publications (de facto, since we don't have them in current publications) were Moon and ... Illusion. How does that play out in terms of an Ur-Scribe? I guess kind of like Ompalam and others as Tyrant rather than Righteous King or Emperor?

i mean, i uh posted that specifically because i am a linguist

where can i read about the origins of Castle Blue because I don't know its origins and it's long frustrated me

Nonetheless, I would not reasonably classify them as subcults of the same deity because there's no deity there. I mean, I guess you could say LM and IO are Storm and Moon variants of Buserian (he's older, he gets precedent imho), but... idk, man. It burns a little. Also, as much as it's useful to think of the monomyth, context is for kings. The details are what make the stories interesting. Sure, Irippi Ontor is a bearded dude who knows stuff, but his story is not the same as the story of Buserian and their magics reflect that fairly significantly. Buserian was meticulous, ascetic and kind, discovered astronomy, compassionately saved people in the Darkness, created comparative theology. Irippi Ontor was a power-hungry disgraced reckless thief who was tossed out of not just Buserian's priesthood, but Lhankor Mhy's as well. He's a mad scientist.

No I mean literally the Oceanic speakers who settled Papua-New Guinea. Two major branches of Austronesian are attested in the island of New Guinea, Oceanic (the Western Oceanic languages) and the South Halmahera–West New Guinea languages.

i've got a headache now. I definitely would not classify Buserian, the Brown Man and Lhankor Mhy as "subcults" of a monomythic nameless scholar god.

Did you expand on the existing pantheon? We've got Soli, Big Eel, Old Turtle Woman and the Earth and Sun Spirits; then we've got the Three Crew, King Malukinda, King Thakinda and Erlanagga (whose yearly rituals are crucial!), and the Sleeping Underworld Gods (again with the yearly sacrifice). I bolded the ones that were mentioned under "Thinokos Tradition", which is classed as shamanic. Likely we've got some Aldryami gods poking their heads in there; the Elamle Ata are the Forest People, right? And of course there's likely some annoying Fonrit influence.

Yelmalio has a lot of things, but friends isn't one of them

In comparison, this woman is speaking in Shetlandic, which is difficult for outsiders, but is clearly intelligible to Standard English speakers: I chose this moment as it moves from English into pure Shetlandic and back again. She's being interviewed in English but after the poem ends she does slide in and out of Shetlandic, sometimes stopping to gloss the words she's said, and talking about how odd it is to be named the Poet Laureate of Edinburgh when she's Shetlandic and is printed as a writer in English, not Scots.

better to say "Dutch and English are related but not mutually intelligible", perhaps, although that's going to be confused by fact that I think almost everyone I ever met in the Benelux Dutch-speaking areas spoke nearly flawless English and therefore they might not grok it internally. Or maybe Frisian and English. They're really, really close but you can't understand a damn thing. It's the closest language to English:

Wait so who is gonna be Heler's best friend?!?!?!

Yeah see this is why I feel like they are Easterners who ended up in Pamaltela. There's no evidence of Agimori culture or religion; in fact there's an independent religion based on Islander myths, and it's shamanic. They have their own creator. Also, as you say, they have no First Drinkers among them. Seems like a little bit of the Eastern Islands 🌴 "many islands and gods divided" principle, but they got cut off somehow yet survived. Less like the peoples of New Guinea and more like the Oceanic peoples who arrived and settled in New Guinea much much later and adopted a lot of local customs.

This is kind of a minor question but: What is the origin of the Thinobutans? They end up in Masko-Elamle but they start out a specific distinct ethnic group way out at sea. * They're not blue-skinned - they're mocked as blueskins because apparently they like woad, but are specifically not, but I can't find much evidence of their origin. I am really confident they aren't displaced Theyalans ("Worlanthi"). * They are discussed in Pamaltela * I'm not sure they are Agimori, they might be Easterners or something. Does anyone have any idea? I'm just curious because I'm kind of confused even after reading a bunch of books. @Joerg? @jajagappa

in premodern times they were more commonly buried in liminal places in many places in Western Europe: doorframes, crossroads, and the like. being unchristened, they were not people yet so despite Church doctrine, they were considered to be upcycled into a new baby. In Ireland and Wales, at least, it was colonialism that lead to a reification of strict beliefs about children and baptism and abortion.

I was mostly joking, it was just such a twitteresque burn

I love the story Beautiful Afidisa. She's like the White Lady, except brutal. mic drop

I think I follow your twitter account

I really enjoy the FATE system because of the structure it creates around your abilities relating to this exact issue. I hope this is okay to discuss here, I know this is RQ/HQ/13AG territory, but this is about taboos and "failing forward" issues. You might have an ability that can be tapped by the player - or the game master. You might have "pure body burning bright like the Sun", as an off-the-cuff example, if you were a Sun Domer - that's a sample aspect based on a geas I read in one of the older books. You'd Invoke that to boost, say, your fighting ability in appropriate circumstances: it wouldn't get you far against another Sun Domer, but you could strike down Chaos, Darkness, Storm... ... but the game master might also Compel it. He'd offer you a chance to get a fate point, a powerful game-changing token for a player. You'd have to pay a Fate point to avoid this circumstance! These situations would involve potential problems with your aspect, "pure body burning bright like the Sun". Perhaps you are starving and must eat a taboo food; perhaps you are stationed alone in a tower with the wife you were forced to divorce and still love (this is a Yelmalion practice). Whatever. Between that and failing forward, it's a good engine for storytelling, especially if you don't have a lot of prep time or your buds don't have the energy to learn RQ. HeroQuest was definitely a major influence on it, but it's got some built-in mechanics HQ doesn't.

The Zaranistangi were fervent Tolat cultists, though! Artmal aided Tolat against Umath and was given his Red Sword, which was used by Artmali kings for a time. It ended up with with the Zaranistangi when one of their leaders, Zemendarn, saved the life of an Artmali king. They renamed it "Point of the Leaper". The Zaranistangi ended up When Sshorg attacked, Dengbalu, king of the Zaranistangi, and his neighbors in Trowjang and Teshnos, became devotees of Tolat in exchange for His help and built a temple with the sword in it. This is the origin of the Tolat temple in Melib. Later, the God Learners learned of a Seshnegi hero wielding an impossible sword against them..

By the by, the entity in question is Send Valu:

The real question is: which areas speak Artmali languages, because they're from the (Blue) Moon! Veldang are Artmali and live in Zamokil, Fonrit and Caridad, but I don't know which groups still speak Artmali. The Blueskin Veldang might not... or they might. There's a lot of Blueskins in Fonrit, far far outnumbering the Agimori there.