Re: Secret History of the Beast Riders?

From: Chris Lemens <chrislemens_at_...>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:56:02 -0000

> If the line in Nomad Gods still holds, Waha has been
> "occasionally" supplanted within history.
>
> Now maybe that line is no longer valid and the beast
> riders were always loyal Wahaists and always will be.
> That's okay. Just so we know.
>
> And if their society is dynamic enough to wobble a
> few times in the last 1,600 years, can the sources
> tell us when and how?

I think that, if someone did a religious history of the Praxians, they would find alternating periods of religious innovation and reaction. The Praxians meet some new group of outlanders and learn new things. To some degree, there is some level of change. Then the reaction comes. It basically thinks it is wiping out that innovation. But reaction never truly returns things ot how they were. Instead, they create yet another new way of doing things that is justified by "that is how it always was." And it encapsulates outlandish things within acceptable forms. So the Humakti influence becomes the Sword Brothers, a hero band and sacred society. Orlanth is recognized as Storm Bull's little brother, the wimpy man who brings the rain. The lunar influence is high "right now," but question what happens when the reaction comes. The Praxians will presumably wipe the Plains clear of over Lunar control, but they can;t change the fact that the spirit talkers at Moonbroth have had significant true revelations about the nature of the spirits there.

Chris