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but isnt everyone within your clan kin? people get their spouses from outside the clan to avoid incest, dont they?

why would you need to breathe before there is death?

After the players killed a bunch of outlaws and their dog was barking angrily at the ma surviivor did everything he could to get them not to hurt the dog. he told them gagarth had sent it and would curse them if they hurt it. Some failed lore rolls later and the PC's said "well, that sounds wrong. But we don't know enough about Gagarth to dispute it" Outlaws do seem to love their dogs.

should have prefixed that I was most curious about pre-lunar tarsh, BUT I appriciate the info regardless and I will surely find it useful

Allegedly, there are cultural differences between Sartarites and Tarshites, specially in customs, but I cant find any sources that actually tell us the difference. Anyone got any sage advice?

An actual tangible benefit in my game: Gagarth sends stray dogs to outlaw groups, with all the benefits dogs brings

Think it would ruffle a lot of feathers

now show them kodp and ride like the wind

I'm gonna make it worse: what if yelmalio is yelm without royalty?

Cool. Looking forward to the pdf!

Hm, well of course the son won't be the same as we was before his Father disappeared.

Showing off some more NPC's, A "woodcut" from my campaignm, a joke image and the Orleving clan ring.The first three NPC's have yet to show up.

Could it be, oh wow how do I try to explain this concept in english... Ok, so, what if teh YELM part of Yelmalio kind of requires there to be a connection to the throne of the universe through his blood tie to Yelm? So when Yelm was killed the YELM part of Yelmalio also went away making him just Elmal(io)? And with the death of his father certain obligations that binds Elmal(io) are gone so he becomes a more free and loose, or rather dynamic god? Teaming up with Orlanth to save the world. all that. Once Yelm and the bounds of kinship and obligations of family returns the god Elmal once again becomes Yelmalio? Am I communicating something here?

In my IRL campaign right now there is a big thing going down in Tarkalor keep. The outlaws found an old runelord of Gagarth and now five big-shots vie for his tutelage to become initates of gagarth, thus making one of them the undisputed chief of all the local outlaws. The players are trying to use this to their clan's advantage and the old runelord is playing everyone...

Eurmal seems to have friendly relations were you last expect them. Like with odayla and babeester gor

I think I heard somewhere that the head of a stead would be a thane?

Friends of old, friends of new and those of you I never knew. My art is to carve simple wood into beautiful shapes, as for making simple words beautiful I shall make an attempt but know now that I shall be accurate and true above all else. It was in the time when men were taming Dragon Pass, before the coming of Sartar first-king, that a clan had settled on the edge of the lands that now belong to the Balmyr tribe. I know not the name of this clan for they later split and merged in seperate ways, but that is not important now. This clan had a peculiar tradition, set by their heroic founding ancestor, to adopt any lost child as their own and this is the reason why when they found a troll babe in a bush they had to make a difficult descicion. There were many good reasons and arguments to not take the child in but ultimately the clan's Orlanth god-talker shamed the people into honouring their ancestral tradition. Thus the troll babe was taken in and raised in the Orlanthi way. I know not what name they gave him, only his later name of fame, so I shall call him "Thundergut" now even though this name was made later and I shall tell you how in time. As a child Thundergut did not have a good time and he was passed around various steads since nobody wanted him for long and tolerated him only out of duty. Other children did not like playing with him, he was ugly, awkward, large and did not know his own strenght. He played too rough, he ate too much and made odd whining noises on bright days. He was even close to getting thrown out of the clan when a lamb in a flock he tended had disappeared. Not an uncommon event in such a wild land but due to his troll nature, well, I think you know what people thought had happened. Again it was the god-talker that saved him by insisting on a divination to detirmine his guilt. In this ritual they did not learn the truth for the ancestors that came to them only wailed that they were not honouring their traditions and they would be cursed if they threw out a child. What a sad beeing the child Thundergut must have been. Desperate for any affection and attention at all he attached himself to the only person who did not wince at him to his face, the Orlanth god-talker. Now, the old man certainly did not want to play, least at all with Thundergut and he certainly did not want to hear about how the child had dreamt that he set fire to the alynxes in the stead (I am told that this was actually said), so in a bid to make the sad little boy shut up and sit down the god-talker talked. And what should he talk about but what he knew? He talked of Orlanth. To me it does not seem like much, but to Thundergut who was starved of affection it must have been an oasis in Prax for he drank deeply of this well of knowledge. In the stories he saw the recipie for love and adoration and he became obsessed. By the time of his initiation his knowledge of the stories of Orlanth was greater than that of even several adults and he came out mightier than any of his initiation-brothers. I am also told that many had hoped he would turn into a human after the initiation but I do not know why anyone would think that. Anyways... With the strenght of his race Thundergut was a great worker and when the many enemies of the clan came to raid and plunder no shieldwall could resist his ferocious charge and mighty thunderbolts. This was the rise of his star for his victories brought wealth and knowing what Orlanth would do with wealth he shared it. I will say that yes, there were those who were friends to him only while the gifts flowed and I have wondered if Thundergut truly was generous or if he was buying adoration. I have never wondered this of any other hero so why should I question the generosity of Thundergut? The drink has me getting sentimental. I shall go on, as usual. Deeply immersed in the lore of Orlanth, emulating his god and mighty in victory. Thundergut built a stead upon a small hillock with wealth from raids and there he lived alone with only his herds for company. He did not attend feasts in those days, always finding some excuse to not partake. Thundergut could not escape his racial hunger and I have no doubt he was deeply embarassed by the way he ate, unable to keep from wolfing down food with accompanying sounds. Imagine. This is the reason why the boar-eating competition is a thing down there. Some clever person came up with a way of making everyone eat like a troll and make a game out of it. Thundergut was the reigning champion his entire life. Now I shall tell you of his name, which he got some time after becoming housecarl to the chief. The clan had many enemies and one of them sought to attack Thundergut where he was most weak, his pride. They composed a song mocking him viciously and naming him Thundergut. When the clan lawspeaker, who was also a skald, heard the song he composed a countersong naming the heroic Thundergut with just a twang of friendly banter and he made sure Thundergut heard his version first. That is one story at least, there is another version where the mocking song was made after the heroic song and this was probably the most common story back then, but my instincts tell me it is wrong. That is what I know, in detail. His heroic deeds are named, such as I recall: the three-horse-jump, the avenging of the widows, the holding of the bridge, the wildfire wrestling and the walktapus affair. Alas, I do not know these stories and I am sure there are more. Aye, he was a great warrior. Wanted to be a wind-lord. He was devoted to the protection of Ernalda, her temple and priestesses like no one else. Never married. I think we all know why. Probably never could get himself to look at a human woman that way. Anyway, I don't know how his story ends. I heard he died before he could become a windlord. Some say he died trying to wear iron armour, which as you know a windlord must possess and others say he died in the service of Ernalda, whatever that means. He is supposedly buried somewhere in the Quivin mountains, under his hillock or in the hills south of Wilmskirk, near wasps nest. A warrior out of Whitewall who sought his magic sword (not that I think he'd be bale to lift it, mind you) claimed he heard Thundergut lies near Kero Fin. More recently a duck theorized to me he lies in the smoking ruins, dead in an attempt to heroquest to ressurect a cult to the darkness son of orlanth of whom he did not remember the name. Ah, who knows. I'll say this: if anyone ever hears any more I would like to know how the story end. Now what say you, shall we raise our horns for Thundergut?

which mobgoose book would that be?

Taming of Dragon Pass boardgame when?

BRB worshiping the Valind pantheon now

If you listen carefully to the lyrics in the avantasia song 'moonglow' you definetively get a lunar feeling https://youtu.be/Mk0FTHqmO9o?list=OLAK5uy_kPwjxBpZnTzij4-M6cyEACfzVD1dc5wKA

"B-b-b-baby, you just a-a-a-ain't seen n-n-n-nothing yet!" -Eurmal-

I am so friggim curious about the white moon

dragonewts ride bipedal birds so ducks should ride bipedal reptiles