> Orlanth cultists would IMO share with the Humnakti the use of many
> different weapons aside from swords, due to Orlanth defeating so many
> deities and taking their weapons during GodTime...
Yup, there's lots of RQ2 stuff to this effect for Orlanth. Elemental mastery, etc. Archetypal myth of Magic Weapon subcult: "Orlanth beats up [name of your element here]. Orlanth gets to use [weapon of element, here], and wins [some spell of element, here]. Har-har-har!"
However, Humakti are big sword-fetishists, let's face it. A cult which has a gift/geas system which "rewards" not using swords is obviously not so keen on these mere lesser weapons. Using a sword is Devout for a Humakti, using other weapons is merely Expedient.
> Who thinks
> that Chalana Arroys would be allowed to disarm opponents with hand to
> hand techniques or parrying weapons, use shields, or put opponents into
> non-damaging holds, a la greek wrestling or Aikido?
As a sometime Uke (Japanese for "hapless fool") on the end of these "non-damaging" aikido techniques, I _don't_ think they ought to be allowed to do that! ;-) I do think, though, that Arroyans (and the other 'subcults' of same, which may or may not be actually worshipped as CA) vary a fair bit in how they interpret the non-violence schtick, though they all have it in some form or other. I also reckon that the ones who have the most anally-retentive, legalistic, do-nothing- that-even-_seems_-a-teeny-bit-violent interpretation are, by and large, the ones with the the niftiest healing magic. Woooo, didn't that sound neo-Objectivist of me?
(One) Truly,
Alex.
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