> Cult Compendium
Thanks!
> Unicorn Tribe - Waha 3%
> Rhino - Waha 35%
On a statistical basis for 1625, that would probably account for some of Waha's "occasional" unpopularity right there. Obviously the unicorn women are mostly Light cultists and mostly women and the rhinos are actually incredibly conservative -- outside the Big Four, there's room for only 17% eccentrics or foreign slaves.
The Great Tribes are surprisingly varied, with the Impala light on Waha with only maybe 1 in 7 people in the tribe (1 in 4 men?) belonging to the cult. Sable are of course skewed a bit toward the Mothers, Morokanth favor "Zorak Zoran" (in quotes as a Dark cult placeholder, much like the unicorns don't actually prefer "Yelmalio" but his sister), Llama are most conservative of all.
Across the Big Four, you have barely 60% Impala who follow the old ways, 82% Llama, 53% Sables (and a lot of them are Daka Fal anyway), 82% Bison, 60% Morokanth.
I'm sure this has already done in the ages of the lists but the chart is nice because it tells us something about the women and foreign slaves as well.
IF (big if) tribal gender breakdown is actually around 50/50 (no exposing daughters or handing them over at the Paps when you visit), then the "conservative" tribe (Bison/Llama/Rhino) looks like about 36% male Waha, 36% female Eiritha, 10% Daka/Bull (gender neutral cults?), 9% male other, 9% female other.
Most if not all foreign slaves will be "other" but not all "other" will be foreign slaves. The Impala men in particular have heavily bought into Orlanth and "Yelmalio" (actual Sun Dome Yelmalio? or something weirder?) so much that Waha is actually a minority cult. Surely the little guys don't keep 2 foreign slaves apiece, so these have got to be actual converts. The Impala have gone over. This is one of those occasions when Waha is less popular on their side of the Plaines. But their women still believe in herd mother.
On the Sable end, it's inverted. The guys are still hanging on -- 30% Waha -- but it's the women who've made room for most of the Seven Mothers presence. If I were speculating I'd say the Impala are desperate for better leadership. They're in a political crisis. The Sable are abandoning the centrality of the herds themselves and letting the men keep strutting around.
> Bolo Lizard Tribe - Waha 8%
> Ostrich Clan - Waha 17%
This is good to have. I'm pulling my old Drastic out of storage, but on this basis, the Ostrich -- weirdos though they are, a little weirder than the Moro -- are more "conservative" than the Impala!
They're still weird though. Whether this means a crazy undercurrent of worshipping a Dead Place cripple is strong among the Ostrich and Bolo people, YGWDV. But I dig it.
> Pol Joni - Waha 7%
Might be a good baseline for "foreign slave" unless you want a game where the cattlemen are slowly forgetting Sartar and going native under their foreign big empty sky. "Flat country makes you skitters," the old hands at Gimpy's say. Now I know why.
Gendering the slaves is complicated because the Pol Joni might still take a lot of tribal wives. They just don't have enough womanly cults on their chart -- I'm sure the lack of an Ernalda line is a typo, but even if every single "other" is female, it doesn't add up right.
> Other independents - the Baboons, the Basmoli, the Cannibal Cult, the
> Men-and-a-half, the Newtlings, the Pavis Survivors - do not worship
> Waha.
As they shouldn't. Next time: Three Beans, or Everybody Hungry.
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