I like the idea of having lunar magic available to illuminates only. But I do not like the rules interpretation of it, for now. Thus, I suggest that lunar magic has to do with illumination, like, giving some help to accomplish a riddle or a illuminating quest. Or it could do other things, that change your worldview. Befuddle-like effects should belong to this category: truth about universum is a bit confusing!
> In other words, why give Red Goddess initiates Mind Blast and
> Madness when the vast majority already have access to those powers, and the
> few that do not probably have no interest. (Not to mention some access to
Why give Humakti truesword when they have bladesharp anyway? Because Humakt gives that kind of magic!
> the deeper secrets of the Red Goddess are about making people crazy
> cheapens it - the deeper secrets of the Goddess (the ones only accessible
> to the Red Goddess initiates) are about transcending limits.
I did not say so. I just said that lots and lots of people have gone crazy (from the viewpoint of sane, unilluminated masses) from illumination. Majority is always sane...
Illumination is also about accepting your shadow, and mostly that. Red Goddess could not have made it to the sky unless she had accepted her shadow, chaos. Things like that. Heck, almost any god who has accepted his/her shadow, might be secretly illumined. This would, in rules talk, only count as one or a few riddles, so it still is unlikely.
The God of Hellfire. You can call me Passo.
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