>> > Could be - everyone lost Orlanth and Ernalda during the Darkness
>> > (and pretty much every other god or goddess of distinction).
>> Yes, because they were dead. Some went to the Underworld voluntarily
>> (Lightbringers) and others not (Yelm). But the fact is the gods were
>> nearly all dead, or at best, on the edge of death (Elmal).
>
> I think this is key to understanding the success of the Theyalan
> missionaries. They showed folk how to contact the gods again.
This was another thing that Heort taught to his people. They did not worship Orlanth, who was unreachable, during the Darkness. I've got the story of how this was done someplace. I'll try to get it into print.
>> > I
>> > would be surprised if one band of Ralians had worshipped (or
>> > propitiated) a killing storm to get them through the Darkness,
>> They may have worshipped one, but it wasn't existant. Unless it was an
>> Underworld storm, a Darkness typhoon, which woujld be worthless to
>> worship except, perhaps, with propitiatory sacrifice.
>
> This makes a lot of sense. Maybe, just maybe, after the Theyalan
> missionaries arrived one band of Ralians concluded that the
> Underworld wind was actually Humakt. But it would end up being a
> minor subcult of Humakt.
Humakt IS sometimes called the Wind of Below. He is the Dead Wind. Not the no Wind, but the Dead Wind...
>> They needed something to better themselves. The Pelorian horse lords
>> of all stripes had underworld powers that helped them and were
>> antithetical to the light and doomed once the sun came out (though of
>> course, the Jenarongites didn't know or accept that.)
>
> That makes perfect sense - and explains in part why the Jenarongites
> were so hostile to the Theyalan missionaries.:)
They had religious reans (Kargzant versus Orlanth) and political reasons (Dara Happa versus Dragon Pass).
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