>Given the all time low that military arts are at in Heortling society,
>anyone with a grasp of logistics and the abilitty to blow people into
>flinders could be declared a military genius.
Your sneers overlook the real genius of Heortling military strategy. Any fool can defeat the enemy on the battlefield but the Heortlings seek to eliminate their opponents capacity to rule. So they set themselves up to be conquered and absorbed into an empire and then assassinate the Emperor. This way they get the aqueducts...
> > There are atheistic sorcerers in Glorantha and there was the
>But these fellows are not common in Sartar and certainly hard to make
>acceptable to Joe Heortlander without some sort of tweaking.
I realize that. But the above is not quite the same as saying that there are no such fellows in glorantha full stop which was originally said.
--Peter Metcalfe
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