How Glorantha has changed over RL time

[Nick Brooke]

11 hours ago, Jens said:

I didn’t get the sense there was any guilt involved in the change- more that their traditional diet was easier to sustain, and that tasty herd men were reserved for ceremonies and feasts. 

Absolutely. All Praxians eat herd men and feel no guilt: they’re herd beasts.

The question is whether Morokanth eat meat (herd man or otherwise) because they’re meat-eaters (unlike tapirs), or because it’s a religious obligation they have to fulfil in order to uphold Waha’s Covenant (which they may or may not have cheated to win).

At the risk of stating the obvious, the Morokanth aren’t like other Praxian tribes, and do things rather differently. Most Praxians prefer to eat other tribes’ herd beasts (won in raids!) rather than their own. The Morokanth are (a) less inclined to steal herd beasts from other tribes (because they don’t really want to eat them,?), and (b) more likely to eat their own herd beasts to “prove a point” (“See: we’re following Waha’s Covenant!”), so what’s true for “Most Praxians” isn’t necessarily true for the Morokanth.