Arguing against 'my' system, do we actually need to qualify Deezola's Life rune for this? Her Resurrection is more costly than Chalana Arroy's because she is not the premier healing goddess. Whilst various mechanics have come and gone, it has been a constant since early RQ2 at least that those other cults which can resurrect people at all, cannot do it as easily as Chalana Arroy. (Though back in Cults of Prax, "more costly" resurrection usually meant only that the spell was not reusable).
That said, as the 'Binder Within', whose cult presides over trade in agriculturual produce within the Lunar Empire, maybe the 'trade' rune would be appropriate for Deezola generally, though maybe as a 'descriptive' rune rather than as a rune denoting her magical competence.
Incidentally in terms of a phrase to differentiate between runes which denote a god/cult's magical power, and runes which just describe the god/cult better, I would suggest calling the first kind "Primary Runes" (as "core runes" is already taken and means something else), and the second kind "Secondary Runes". I would then put a definition of both sorts of rune in the equivalent of the 'blank cult outline'. Though there may well be an even better term for it.
Oh and has anyone worked out what to call liturgists yet?
Richard Hayes
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Subject: Re: Opposing runes and the circle of elements - Lodril
To: WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, 31 July, 2009, 12:04 PM
> The difficulty with this is that we get runes which negate parts of
> other runes and it may not be clear what is being negated or how.
> E.g. Deezola has a limited form of ressurrection in that someone
> has to die in the ressurrectees place. So you modify Chalana Arroy's
> Harmony rune with what? Death?
Sounds like [Balace] or [Trade] (exchange).
> This also solves the problem of Humakt having only limited powers
> from the Truth rune. He should have something like "True Oath"
> especially as Humakti outside Sartar don't always have this rune.
[Loyalty] maybe?
-Adept
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