That's a freeform plot twist, and definitely not canonical. BTW, Wyrms Footnotes 15 (available on the website) is loaded with material on Alda Chur (and on Sun County for that matter).
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> I might be misremembering details, but I think Harvar Ironfist, despot of
> Alda Chur started out as a Yelmalion, but I think then announced that he
> was a priest of Yelm (rather to the surprise of Dara Happan Yelmites
> visiting).
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> So in at least some times it's a form of social climbing.
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> On 5 April 2013 01:31, drscience3000 <dr.dave.00_at_...> wrote:
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> > Well, thanks. That makes it clearer. I guess the only question for the
> > Yelmi is which is better (or less worse), to have a vague sense of the
> > superiority of a proper society and mess up implementing it (like the
> > Yelmalion) or never even glimpse the truth (like the Olanthi)?
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> > How about the inverse? Do the Yelmalion respect Dara Happan worship (but
> > probably not their rigid culture (?)), but are mad that they don't
> > understand Yelmalion place in the solar order of things?
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