Gender composition of cults

[Joerg]

There are explicitely more than one read-headed woman deities among the Orlanthi, with Vinga and Redalda being the best known ones. I suppose there should be one version of the axe women that comes with the red hair, too - and if it is just the clotting blood in Babeester's tresses.

There are un-gendered roles as Heortling cults. Traders, sages (despite the artificial beards, or perhaps because of them), entertainers, thieves/tricksters (althouth being unable to lose their penis is something of a loss for female tricksters), charioteers, and a number of moderately gendered ones - berserk, deathblade,  pacifist healer.

The 1 in 7 rule can be read in a number of ways, even if only applied to NPCs.

Published RQG suggests that at least one in seven Sartarite women remain in their birth clan even in exogynous clans (like e.g. the Varmandi herdswomen). It suggests that up to one in seven people cultists of the elemental deity usually associated with male ot female  gender has the opposite or a diverse gender - male, helering, neutral and nandan initiates of Ernalda, female, helering, neutral and vingan initiates of Orlanth. (Can there be vingan Ernalda or nandan Orlanth initiates?)

[JonL]

1 hour ago, Joerg said:

Can there be vingan Ernalda or nandan Orlanth initiates?)

I expect that the number is low, but not zero.

[Qizilbashwoman]

5 hours ago, Joerg said:

(Can there be vingan Ernalda or nandan Orlanth initiates?)

I haven't done all the math but I believe it works out. You'd be a professional worshipper, though. Don't know how'd you get anything else done and you'd be poor as hell. Plus everyone would be annoyed with your pious peacocking.

[Sheliak]

I don't think Osara's mother is Ekarna--probably not Nyalda either, given the timing, but it may not be a good idea to apply timeline logic to gods. Maybe Nivorah, Elmal's first wife and the mother of Reladivus?