That answers the question quite nicely but I may have a further one. Does the magic section detail how to become a Runelord and all the extra trimming, if so I read about it in a few weeks but if it doesn't?
Dave.
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> From: Roderick and Ellen Robertson [SMTP:rjremr_at_...]
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> > I wasn't really so worried about the HW/RQ mechanics stuff. To my mind
> rune
> > levels were always officials of a religion and in RQ terms qualification
> was
> > mostly done mechanically. I suppose what I'm trying to ask badly is
> "Does
> > the Orlanthi religion still have such a position as Windlord, if so what
> is
> > the nature of that position?"
>
> Actually, I was wrong about the nature of "Rune Lords" - here are Greg's
> musings:
> Note that "Priest" is divorced from "Rune status" - you can be a priest
> without being a Rune-type person.
>
> RR
>
>
> "Q: What are rune lords now in Hero Wars? If I am a devotee of Humakt,
> does that mean that I am a Sword of Humakt? If so, it seems like the
> entry requirements are a lot easier nowadays, even if I also have to take
> the Priest occupational keyword.
>
> A: No, a devotee of a deity is not the same as the old rune lord. "Rune
> lords" do still exist, and it is indeed more difficult to become one than
> it is to become a devotee. A rune lord is a worshipper of a deity who so
> embodies the attributes (i.e., physical skills, mental skills, virtues,
> and affinities) of the deity that he becomes a living representative of
> the deity in the Inner World. He gains access to additional powers, and
> generally spends all of his time doing the deity's work.
>
> A rune lord (or rune priest as some were known) is not merely a devotee
> who spends more time worshipping the deity. Indeed, a rune lord may not
> spend more time than a communal worshipper in the temple to his god.
> Instead, he is out in the world, doing the things that his deity did, and
> showing his devotion to the deity in everything that he does. Thus, a
> Sword of Humakt is the embodiment of Humakt in the Inner World. Although
> he spends about 90% of his time being a Sword of Humakt, this time is not
> spent in prayer. Instead, the Sword will be a war leader, perhaps a
> mercenary captain, and his time is devoted to practicing war and combat,
> either by training his followers, fighting in battles, or performing the
> heroquests that made his god the greatest warrior in Glorantha.
>
> Priest is a term that describes an occupation, not a magical status.
> Although most temple leaders who are priests will be devotees, it is
> possible for an initate to also be a priest, probably a junior priest or
> the like who assists the more magically powerful priests. On the other
> hand, a Sword of Humakt certainly will be a War Leader, Mercenary
> Captain, or the like, and will not have the priest keyword. Priests of
> Humakt are known, perhaps tending a temple in a large city or teaching
> swordfighting to the sons of nobles, but his duties are administrative
> more than active -- he is not doing what his god did, he is running his
> god's temple and ensuring the continued worship of the god. His duties
> are important to the god, but he is not himself an exemplar of the god.
> "
>
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