Yelm, runes and spells and heroquests
About Yelm in the core rules of Runequest Roleplaying in Glorantha. There's one thing I don't understand.
Why is Yelm's runes marked as [Sky/Fire, Fertiity, Death] and why does he only have one Fire/Sky Rune en though Orlanth and Ernalda have two Storm or Earth runes respectively and Yelm is clearly shown to have the [Sun/Sky, Stasis, Mastery] runes in Guide to Glorantha?
What's even wierder is that you don't need the Death or Fertility rune for any of Yelm's spells. They can al
I wouldn't go that far. The Sunstop is the result of some of the strongest magics within Time, but it doesn't prevent a heroquester to find weird fragments of former sun gods and to bring thosee back as subcults or hero cults. Creating one of those old sun gods again to rival Yelm in recognition would require a similarly strong world-wide event, such as the rising of the Red Moon which established the Red Emperor.
We still have Somash and Maluraya, the Vithelan Viceroy of the Sun (
