John Biles

Sword World is the dominant fantasy game in Japan; it evolved from BECMI era D&D.

They're honest about stealing your cows and sheep, though.

The blood is in Dorastor, so it likely is now part of a Chaos monster. And I'm sure that hauling a piece of a dead god who corrupted people and died in Dorastor will be 100% safe and fun! Certainly no angry Arkati or other lunatics would want to take it themselves.

Accused of Thanatari over what??? The advantage Yelmalions have is that they make great phalanxes, while Elmali are horsemen. Each has its uses.

This is from my Blue Moon Empire project Troll Heresy The Blue Moon Trolls always had an important place for Annila, the Blue Moon Goddess, unlike most trolls. The formation of the Empire and the Goddess walking among them and providing a home for many trolls under the islands of her Moon, where the sun cannot touch them, has led the Blue Moon Trolls into full blown heresy. Trolls initiated to her cult can live comfortably underwater, and the light of the Blue Moon during the day protects them from the Sun. (Conveniently, the Blue Moon sets when the Sun sets). They now see Annila as the supreme mother of Trollkind and Kygor Litor as her daughter, while Nysalor is seen as, basically, evil incarnate, too evil even to be eaten. And Trolls will eat Chaos creatures. One of the central goals of the cult is to obliterate Nysalor; the deepest enemy of the cult are the Nysalorean Riddlers who show up like outbreaks of plague. According to cult tradition, Arkat tore off Nysalor's arms and legs, then forced him to eat his own genitals, then chopped his torso into four pieces, then cracked his skull open and ground his brains into powder. So there are ten pieces of Nysalor, though one piece is powder in a jar. Unfortunately, he hauled them all off to Stygia and when that fell, the pieces were scattered. The cult has found five of the pieces and keeps them at hidden, widely separated locations - they have the skull, the upper right piece of the torso, the left arm (found by Sheng Seleris, recovered when he was slain), the brain powder, and the lower left piece of the torso. The case of Sheng Seleris revealed something horrible - a person missing the appropriate part can graft a chunk of Nysalor to their body and gain some of his power. Someone bringing a chunk of Nysalor to the Blue Moon Trolls would be greatly rewarded. Blue Moon Trolls are not immune to the curse on Trollkind, but those initiated to the Blue Moon only give birth to trollkin in one of three births instead of half the time. They believe they can end it entirely if they can ever get their hands on all of Nysalor's remains.

Nelat's Bath has many uses.

I believe the Elmal version of Hill of Gold is where he and Orlanth first become friends. Since Elmal doesn't lose the fire rune, I expect this enables him to kick Zorak Zoran's ass and then Orlanth probably sleeps with Inora since that's Orlanth's main non-combat job.

Mere speculation. Yelm having to marry his own female aspect after Ernalda left him amuses me as a thought.

Elmal married Redalda, Goddess of Horses, in the Foreigner's Wedding. However, he and Heler also have a rivalry over the hand of Esrola, who they both want.

Thought - Dendara is Yelm's female aspect and the mother of the Gold Wheel Dancers, but with her chained to Yelm, they can't exist as a separate thing. The creation of Nysalor was the final killing blow to her people and his death came too late.

High on drugs.

The earth element emerged from the waters, but left some of its essence behind in the oceans when it did.

Being eaten by Krarsht means your essence is processed into more Krarshtkids to go eat more people to make more Krarshtkids.

He's an illuminate, so breaking rules is his job.

Yelmalio, given what happens at the Hill of Gold.

Living things have a body and a sol. Spirits have no bodies. They don't eat food and they don't reproduce in the way that living things do. Physical beings can't even interact with spirits in a physical way, only by magic and spirit combat. Things like Heal, classic life magic, doesn't work on them.

Not in the same way as corporeal things.

Micro-organisms don't exist to cause disease; disease comes from spirits, which is a different rune.

Ii did a Shaman of Kolat right here on this board:

Real world mysticism covers that same huge stretch, but we would benefit from having several different flavors of illumination. The difference between a Durulz and what?

That's a cool idea. Or you discover what is left of Nysalor is trapped in one of the Lich's soul gems. or both! You can have both! (Arkat would 100% have wanted the Hand and Eye of Vecna.) The Forbidden City is a natural to put in Pamaltela. (Or Seshnela because of the Yuan-ti, but the geography is wrong for Seshnela) White Plume Mountain was the former home of a God-Learner who fled their fall into some other realm, leaving his trapped home in a volcano behind.

Page 132 of the Guide has a First Age Timeline. Page 135 and 137 (but not page 136) had the Second Age Timeline. Pages 141 and 145 have the Third Age Timeline.

They then would need to buy Mongoose to get Traveller and they'd basically control the main survivors from the early age of RPGs.

It would also give them control of D&D.

I created some fan classes for 13th age Glorantha, covering Lankhor Mhy, Yelmalio and Yelorna, Elmal, and Kolat.