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Thanks for the update. The delay on the Lunar Way is killing me so I understand, and agree with, the change in announcements. I hope we continue to get updates on what's coming next even if there's no date on when it's coming.

Any spirit can detect rune affinities over 50% at POW x 10 meters and cult affinities at POW x 1 meters. Even if a Spirit of Law has no other special chaos detecting abilities it's going to find a target unless the summoner was really clueless about what they're up against. If it would attack someone for being a member of a chaos cult, if they've got a less than 50% chaos rune, and they weren't up to anything particularly chaotic when the spirit arrived, I'm not sure. Reveal Rune is the only spell that can detect chaos that I've ever heard of. It takes, at least, 5 minutes and it's an active spell.

You don't need to use your own POW to make an enchantment. A vampire worth his salt should be able to find someone to provide some.

I'm thinking something more like the worship leader speaks the words, or draws the forms, and the congregants chant or sing to start the ceremony, and augment the leader's worship roll. Not something permanent, like sanctified ground, but closer to an axis mundi. I like the idea that just having the worship Invisible God skill you can worship, regardless of sect, caste, or status, by yourself, wherever too.

Do Malkioni need to worship on sanctified ground? If so, who sanctifies it?

Has what happens when a spirit of law wins in spirit combat been detailed in RQG, or RQ2 for that matter? In RQ3 it would eat their POW, and soul, if I remember correctly. Great result in most cases.

Yeah, I was just thinking about Invisible God ceremonies. I doubt gods would be integrated into Invisible God ceremonies in Losksam or Seshnela, regardless of what people do on the sly. I do imagine most everyone participating would view worship as legalistic, formalistic, and maybe, boring. But, odd as it may seem, it might be even easier for worshippers, highest to lowest, to see how their contribution helps maintain the community.

I'm loving the book. Must admit it's a bit embarrassing I never thought through some of effects the great sleep in Fronela.

Now that more aspects of Malkioni society are being explored I started wondering what a typical worship ceremony might look like. I realize they will vary greatly by sect, but will they all share some basic aspects, or be completely unrecognizable from one another? The only things I've settled on are singing some songs from the Ice Age and a magical introduction to the divine when everyone gives up their MP's.

The OP raises some great questions about the nature of Malkioni society. We know that being illuminated makes you immune to spirits of reprisal. I doubt the Invisible God has spirits of reprisal. We know Malkioni need to maintain a positive Rightness score. Can an individual Malkioni raise or lower their Rightness if there's no one there to see? I would think so. If not a lone Malkioni could do whatever they want when no one is looking, illuminated or not. Becoming an initiate of the Invisible God might be akin to making an oath to the sect you join as opposed to standard initiation. The point of POW you give when you join, if you give a point of POW, goes to maintaining the sects magic, not the Invisible God. If an illuminate breaks an oath they suffer the consequences. I'd think an illuminated Malkioni that breaks their caste restrictions would suffer the consequences too.

I agree with your definition of piety but using the term piety with the Malkioni dredges up many tedious associations with Earth's medieval west for old timers like myself. We need a better term to frame the discussion.

To each his own. No one ever needs to resist a spell. Always thought magic knows who wants to hurt you or not.

Roll based on the shaman's POW. Adding the fetch's POW to the shaman's POW is for opposed rolls.

Good question for the QA thread.

Can a Zorak Zorani be an initiate of Kyger Litor? If you strictly follow the cult restrictions the answer would be no. But a troll not being a member of the Kyger Litor cult just seems strange to me.

A lot of that has been corrected. See: https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/home/catalogue/publishers/chaosium/runequest-roleplaying-in-glorantha/cha4028-runequest-roleplaying-in-glorantha-qa-by-chapter/cha4028-runequest-roleplaying-in-glorantha-chapter-15-shamans/ I think the intent of the original text was that the shaman couldn't add their POW to the fetch's POW for opposed POW vs POW rolls. All of that was changed.

Zzabur tells the Brithini what Solace, the soul, and the possibility of an afterlife, is. If you're an immortal Brithini would you want die, slowly, to see if he is mistaken? On the other hand Zzabur's never died, so what does he know? But who's going to ask?

Having played a Death Lord, or two, medic ZZs were not a thing in our games. There was always someone willing to patch you up on your way out of town, or that would "volunteer" to tag along into the chaos nest to see to your medical needs. No need to recruit from within. An XU, that I'm happy to see well represented in RQG, were always best to have along. Except Mom would say to bring 'em back in one piece.

I'd expect she'll get all the RQ2 spells. I wonder if Healing Trance could regrow limbs or heal characteristic loss? It never seemed like a very useful spell. It could serve as Troll version of those spells if it did. From a Gloranthan ecology standpoint you'd think Trolls would be able to heal those wounds themselves. Hard to imagine a ZZ Death Lord asking a CA healer to grow his arm back. As an aside, maybe Healing Trance should work with the Darkness rune. It's Life and Harmony in RBoM and it's the spell XU gives ZZ as an associate cult. The irony of a Zorak Zorani getting an xp roll in either of those runes for making that spell work is delicious, but why would they give up a point of Power to be able to try?

Her spells are in RBoM. I'd hope she'd get restore health and regrow limb too.

It didn't sit well with me either. But when the only examples of people openly professing being illuminated demonstrate amoral behavior on the regular, that's going to happen. In Belvani's case I'm not sure we know how he became illuminated, not that it matters, but it seems like he's just doing his best for Sun County through irregular means.

Sorry to have contributed to thread drift with my previous comment. My first exposure to Runequest was run by a GM that regularly massacred each and every PC, using Melee. He branched out once and ran a session of Runequest. Every PC lived and we saved our community from a dire threat. A community was built in from day one in Runequest. I'm here 40 years later.

We mostly played Melee (proto GURPS I believe) back in the early '80's. All I ever saw were mimeographed pages about character creation. I've never set eyes on the actual rulebook. But even that was a vast improvement over D&D. Runequest was around but it took us awhile to warm to the idea of ongoing plots and characters.

Thanks for all these postings on heroquesting. They are greatly appreciated.

An evil spirit that pops up in Losksam sometimes, per Genertela Crucible of the Hero Wars, if I remember correctly.