Peter Metcalfe wrote:
>
> >Although we now have "Command gods of Storm pantheon" as a Rex feat
> >so plenty more room for heated debate ;-)
>
> It's more than Command Gods of Storm Pantheon, it's command any
> god. Orlanth is the King of the Gods as well as being Chief of
> the Storm Tribe.
Perhaps, but certainly at an improv penalty -- and dependant on just how well they take to that.
But the word god is (possibly) not quite the right one -- it will certainly work on Daimones (servant in latin, I think?) of gods, esp those in the Storm pantheon.
> >Presumably the implication of the Lawstaff is that Heort made changes
> >to the Orlanthi legal system - perhaps for the resoloution of feuds
> >(the Helm and Sword war was started by a feud so it seems
> >appropriate) - maybe Heort invented weregild.
>
> Werguild was invented by Orlanth according to the Vingkotling's
> myth (p50 Enclosure #2). I have heard about Heortling Lawspeakers
> (as opposed to Lhankor Mhy ones) but I don't know how official
> this is.
Yeah. IIRC, Heort re-discovered the Lawstaff Path -- basically, he rekindled the rules of Just Kingship which had fallen by the wayside during the Darkness as they were just too difficult and suicidal to abide by. And that allowed a culture nearly extinct to survive and rebuild during the Star/Silver age so that there was soemthing for Orlanth and the rest to return to.
> The Sartarites do have the Rex cult but the Hendreiki do not
> (mainly because they do not have Rexes any more - they have
> barons and earls instead). Alakoring was active around 920 ST
> whereas Dragon Pass wasn't closed to humanity until two centuries
> later. That's more than enough time for the Heortlings to learn
> about Rex.
>
> --Peter Metcalfe
The Hendriki seem to be undergoing a rather nasty bout of cultural assimilation. Best start looking for a heroquest to whack on Malkioni (culturally speaking, of course)... But I'd think that the Rex aspect is alive and well in Sartar as well as being around in the older, more conservative clans of the Heortland plateau backcountry.
Jeff
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