> I'm a little confused by the character sheets currently available.
You're not alone. As I understand it, there were some late changes to the way religions were presented in the Hero Wars core rulebook which didn't make it onto the character sheet. (I may be wrong in this, and am ready to hear the real story from anyone better informed).
Look at Kallai's character sheet in HW:RiG -- it doesn't have the same stats you'd expect from reading his keywords and magic rules. Making him a rather confusing char-gen example for new players... :-(
> Runes
IIRC, Hero Wars was until quite late in the day going to have each target-of-worship (theistic, sorcerous, mystical or animist "cult") represented by a hierarchical string of runes, including one defining type-of-worship, one defining the relevant great deity (Pantheon head -- or presumably philosophy, tradition etc. for other worship types), and others giving the equivalent of aspect and subcult etc. This got cut, but various references or allusions survive in the rulebook and -- most noticeably -- on the character sheet.
I *think* that by this system you'd have shown a typical Ernaldan's runes as:
[Theism] [Orlanth] [Ernalda] [Ernalda the *aspect*] [*subcult*]
But most folk wouldn't bother with this - just scribble down your subcult's rune, and the rest goes by default!
> Worship and Pantheon: on the same line... what goes in Worship?
Actually, this should be Worship ______ Pantheon, e.g. "Worship Orlanth Pantheon," as defined in the HW rules.
> Great Deity: presumably this is the doiminant power of the pantheon?
Should be the pantheon head, but nobody would care very much if you leave this out, IIRC. I don't recall any rules dealing with this.
> Runes seem self explanatory but: if your subcult has a rune
> different to the major cult rune, do you record both?
Why not? If you want to. If you want to show just one, I'd say go to the subcult (lowest level of detail).
Cheers, Nick
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