Trotsky wrote:
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>
> Not necessarily. Even among the Heortlings, according to KoH, not every
> man has the Air rune (unsurprisingly, given the existence of Elmal).
>
Mmm... I should have specified "Orlanthi All". What I found interesting
was that the default seemed to be elements and even the "other options"
were also elements.
>
> It's simply the most common rune, as Earth is for women. So the fact
> that most Malkioni, especially among the wizard caste, tend to have the
> Law rune doesn't mean that they all do, let alone that they don't also
> happen to have an elemental rune. What they won't tend to have, as a
> general rule, is a particular preponderance of a given elemental rune
> within their culture.
>
Hmm... That's another thought. All people have an elemental rune, but in
some cultures that tends to group with class or gender, and in others it
just doesn't.
>
>
> > You didn't opine on the "three" question.
> >
> No, I didn't :)
>
^_^ Clever man. :)
>
> >
> > Would you let Malkioni who haven't hurled themselves to Magus-level
> > devotion to the magical arts use their Law rune for supplementing tasks
> > - the "layperson" level of magic?
> >
>
> I'd let them use to augment any Law rune associated magic.
>
But not everyday tasks?
I'm torn on this.
I do see an appeal for a Glorantha-wide "everyone knows everyone has
runes" - it puts them front and center in an interesting way and they
are very Gloranthan.
Now, since I think many religions/societies are fairly mixed, that many
know how to draw on a rune connection for simple aid to mundane acts
would make some sense.
>
> Which would
> include, for example, anything in The Abiding Book, or in most
> scriptures. That covers most of the Church-approved magic that the lay
> population uses, but, in most places, they also have "unofficial" magic,
> which may be individual talents or spirits, or whatever, and don't
> usually have anything to do with the Law rune.
>
Yes, absolutely.
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