> That brings up a slightly different question. Spirit ratings for fetishes
> and spirits aren't allowed to be increased. Is that simply because the
> player isn't allowed the control neccessary for that to happen, or because
> it can't happen due to something in Glorantha. That is, does locking a
> spirit in a fetish or charm sorta prevent them from changing like they
were
> preserved in a jar?
Otherworld beings don't and can't learn. This is primarily due to the compromise (or whatever cultural name you want to call it). They did all their "Growth" during the Gods War, and now they are stale, sterile things. Orlanth won't be stealing any more powers from other gods, Waha won't be learning new Survival tricks, even the Red Moon, now that She's a goddess and ascended to the Otherworld (well, made her own) isn't going to be learning anything new.
What they *can* do is lose powers through being forgotten, or rediscover lost powers when they get more worshippers. (It would take a *long* time - decades or centuries - for Orlanth to lose his powers if the Lunars had won at Whitewall and really killed him).
> From another POV, are spirit allies substatively different in terms of
their
> ability to change, or is it just that the player has more control of these
> beings? Put yet another way, if the narrator thinks that a spirit in a
Basically, making a Spirit Ally into a Sidekick instead of a retainer is equivalent to making it an "Inner World being" (at least for as long as it has a body to return to). While this isn't really what is happening, it is a side-effect of using the Sidekick rules. Or you can say that the increased attention the spirit recieves from the player hero (those 2 extra HP to make it a sidekick instead of a retainer, and the HP used to increase its powers) allow it to rediscover lost powers due to "worship".
> fetish would have gotten more powerful due to things it had experienced,
> would it make sense to increase it's ability ratings, or, again, is there
> something in Gloranthan reality that's preventing this from happening?
It doesn't experience things any more. Since the Compromise, only Middle-World beings can truly learn and grow.
> Is the limit on spirit changes a Gloranthan limit, or a player limit?
It's Gloranthan.
RR
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