And a nice summary it is, too.
>They cannot:
>- call on any otherworld spirt or saint for help.
>- call on any mixed-world being for magic.
>They can:
>- take part in the communal aspects of their religion, since it calls
>upon their god as part of the pantheon and community of gods.
Now here's the tricky part -- communal Storm Tribe worship includes animism. If the clan needed to support a Kolating in a heroquest and performed the ceremony where Orlanth welcomed Kolat into the Storm Tribe to affirm the clan's support of the animist, I assume a Hedkoranth devotee could still do this and it would "count," even though it's slipping into Misapplied worship and "doing animism" and all that stuff. Because the devotee is just doing what Hedkoranth did -- welcoming his weird uncle into the clan and offering him decent hospitality and support.
Would the animist get an "alien world" modifier on the support because its mostly theistic and the quest is mostly animist?
I assume that defiant entities devote (and concentrate) to the being, not the "system" -- so a Storm Bull practitioner (at least if he knew the Secret) could enter a Heortling communal rite as Urox and get and give the appropriate benefits, although he couldn't learn any non-Storm Bull/Urox abilities, even if a devotee normally could. Of course, the Heortlings might not appreciate such a "guest," but it's possible, right?
Peter Larsen
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