Well, just to add fuel to the fire, a while back Neil Robinson and I were wondering about Carmanian Humakti at one point and we wondered if the Carmanian war god (whatever his name really is) might have a light aspect and a dark aspect.
The light aspect is an honourable soldiers god, offering Morale, Truesword, etc and the dark aspect is a cruel killers god offering Berzerk, Crush, etc. with an tendency towards committing atrocities.
So the Carmanian war god combines both aspects of war but the worshippers can only invoke/manifest one aspect at a time and they generally only invoke the dark aspect when really pressed.
I seem to remember that the Carmanian manifested the dark aspects of their gods in their battle against the Red Godess at the Four Arrows of Light battle and were beaten as the dark aspect is vulnerable to light magics.
Pelorian and Manirians who see this god in his light aspect think they worship Humakt. Pelorians and Manirians who see this god in his dark aspect usually don't live to recount it but certainly don't think it is the same god and the same worshippers.
But then that's dualists for you.
This might fit in with Loren's idea for encouraging Carmanian 'contrariness' in terms of similar dualistic behaviour.
(Of course, in the interests of safety, Neil might want to quickly disown this idea and say it was all my fault, so as to avoid getting scorched by any fallout :-)
TTFN,
Paul.
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