> You are arguing from the rules and not from the source mythology. The
> fire runespells that were given to him were provided solely on the basis
> of him being the premier fire god and little thought was given then
> about how he might be useful to the vast majority of peasants that
> worship him.
>
> If he was the god of peasants, what magics do you think he should have?
>
> --Peter Metcalfe
Let's see,
Power over the earth and for growing crops comes from the women (who seem to be utterly absent from all the Lodril-earth-god arguments).
Male god of Fire, strength and earthly joys seems quite useful and spiritually fulfilling to me. Fire is a _huge_ deal in low tech societies, and the smithing aspects seem quite telling for what is considered men's work. The approach to plowing would seem to come more from smithing and technology, and indeed opening furrows as per the usual sexual metaphor,
Lighting and controlling fires. Keeping the fields warm incase of frost. Smithing. Strength. Male fertility. Most importantly, having a member of the Solar Pantheon who left his lofty perch, and come down to live with the Hoi Polloi, giving the vast majority of the people a spiritual link to the fires of life.
That's not enough for the male peasants god?
-Adept
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