John Biles

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.

I have to assume that's a mistake, given that Wakboth would have to be pinned under the block AND eaten and turned into time at the same time.

That's the standard mythology, as laid out in the Guide, volume 1.

A copy of the Abiding Book signed by one of the witnesses of its creation. A trial transcript from the trial of a rampaging Trickster put on trial by a God-Learner tribunal. The list of his crimes ends with 'And one Motion Rune violation'. An official Dwarven War Report of one of the seasons of the war on Zistor. A massive folio of diagrams related to Zistor and the Machine City The travel journal of a team of healers who seemed to always end up solving mysteries more than healing. A formula for synthetic blood developed by a God-Learner. Intended to 'help keep Vampires under control'. A small statuette of Hrestol dressed as an apothecary. A diorama with a collection of gods from various cultures, assembled to bless the wedding of Ernalda and Monster Man. (Someone with the right knowledge can tell each god is actually symbolic of a chemical or substance and this is enchanted to aid in various kinds of chemical synthesis. It just was left this way by the last user.) A crystal sphere the size of a fist; if you gaze into it, you see a beautiful city shaped like the law rune, seen from high above. (This is a representation of Solace. As imagined by its creator.) A bowl of water in which a stone turtle floats; careful study shows that the parts of its spikey shell which rise above the water depicts the land masses of second age Glorantha. This shows the world as understood by one of the cultures of the East Iislands. A small bowl which fits comfortably in the palm of your hand; spend 1 MP and it comes to life, burning with fuel-less flame which looks oddly like the Flame of Sartar... if that flame was lit, anyway. A 10 gallon glass cylinder without a lid, with a thick layer of some old powder on the sides. The skin of a dragonnewt, encased in a translucent green fluid inside a sealed glass container. (The dragonnewt in question is stuck awaiting rebirth until someone releases his skin from the fluid. Dragonewts literally cannot perceive the container.) An enchanted lens which doesn't seem to do anything. (It reveals invisible runes, a common trick in the second age and largely abandoned ever since. But given the lab's origins, *something* should have invisible runes.) Once potent but now just old goo containers of magical ink turned into goo by the passage of time. A glass container holding two pints of a silvery metallic powder which is not actually silver ((It's chromium!)

This suggestion is based on how lizard skin is processed into lizard leather. First, you salt the skin to preserve it. Once you're ready to go to work, you bathe it to get the salt off. Then you soak it in lime (not lime juice, but the stuff made from marble) - this removes scales, nails, mucins, natural greases, and fats. It also splits the fibers so the collage in the skin can be worked. But then you have to delime the skin because if left on too long, you get goo. Citric or Acetic Acid are ideal. Then you pickle the skin to make it even more acidic so your tanning agents will work. The next step is to get a special tub which won't be destroyed by the special dwarven chemicals you need which convert it from organic skin to in-organic leather. You then shave the leather to degrease it and make it an even thickness. You then get a clay pot and soak the leather in a special bath using hard to get water and elven herbs to make it supple instead of stiff. Then you hang it to dry and carefully clean it. Then you can dye it and it's ready to turn into armor.

To quote Discworld (Carpe Jugulum): A discussion between the witch Granny Weatherwax and Omnian missionary Mightily-Praiseworthy-Are-Ye-Who-Exalteth-Om Oats. “And that’s what your holy men discuss, is it?” “Not usually. There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment about the nature of sin, for example.” “And what do they think? Against it, are they?” “It’s not as simple as that. It’s not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of grey.” “Nope.” “Pardon?” “There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.” “It’s a lot more complicated than that—” “No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.” “Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes—” “But they starts with thinking about people as things.” Treating others as objects to get what you want is the fundamental sin of the occulted (the illuminated who go to the dark side as you put it). Illumination tells you that the distinctions on which you base your world view don't exist, they're all made up and arbitrary. Ideally, this means you have compassion for others, because you and they are one, in the end. But the occulted take it as 'I can do anything I want and everyone else exists for my gain; I need have no regard for what they want; laws and limits do not exist'. This is sometimes combined with 'I have gone extremely bonkers due to mystical insight and I now have a really insane plan', but not always. The EWF's leaders were pretty high on their own supply, while Arkat and Argath just didn't care about anything except revenge. Because here's the thing - illumination removes all fear and protects you from supernatural punishment for breaking the law. But it does nothing to get rid of your passions. And those, now unchained, can easily lead you to become a force of destruction that Chaos can only dream of matching, most of the time. It can also lead you to thinking you can monkey with Chaos and it will be just fine. This is like trying to build things run by nuclear power when you don't fear radiation. Failing to recognize that illumination won't actually get rid of your dark qualities is why Sheng Seleris happened.

Arkat's war on Nysalor/Gbaji started because Nysalor's followers were spreading diseases and then 'curing' them to win people over to their cult. This act of deceit is where the name Gbaji (deciever) came from. The effort to stop them ended in disaster, but he survived and losing his Brithini allies just made him madder. And each step caused him to more and more flush any ideals he had down the toilet in the quest for enough power to finally destroy Nysalor. Accompanied by anyone he did have any affection for dying in the process. Only when Nysalor was dead and he'd basically trashed everything save Kralorela did he finally look at the wasteland he'd made (and called peace) and tried to do better - I'm pretty sure the main goal of the Arkat cult is to ensure no more Arkats. Or at least, that's what he hoped, but by now, there's a bunch of factions and most of them are bonkers in their own way. The interesting thing about Arkat is that he shows how the quest for revenge makes you into a monster and lays waste to the world. He started out with understandable righteous anger at what the cult of Nysalor was pulling and in the end, he became the perfect soldier caste person - a killing machine shorn of all pity, hesitation, or guilt. Too late, he came to regret that. And then he tried to close the door behind him with his cult, but he failed. Arkat collected the tools to make the perfect vengeful madman, and then Argath repeated his sins for similar reasons. But did even more damage.

I can rob Chaos and it won't be a crime.

Mostali live to fix the World Machine and the Brrithini live in order to live more.

When you gaze into the Abyss...

Weirdly, there's a link to it on the Pelgrane site... but it doesn't work. Anyway, I have it!

Storm Bull wouldn't understand systematic oppression if you told him for a thousand years. If you can't fix it by direct, personal violence, he's not interested.

The obvious origin of the potato to me is that it was *grown on the Spike*. Plenty of sunlight and high elevations. (I also can't help but imagine there are wild potatoes in Prax but no one realizes because only the green leafy bit is obvious and gets eaten by herdbeasts.)

If they have balloons, the Red Moon was obviously a huge red hot air balloon / zeppelin. But this gives me another thought - we now think Earth's Moon is the result of Proto-Earth being hit by a Mars-sized planet called Theya which then fused and then spat out chunks which coalesced into the White Moon. So obviously the birth of the White Moon in Glorantha is the fruit of the Red Moon hitting Peloria, and then parts of it bouncing up and fusing into the White Moon of the Fourth Age. Sure, this kills everyone in Peloria, but no one likes them anyway.