> For my group, we didn't find much contradiction with the Lunar
> way. Lunars are against "unhealed" chaos.
That still doesn't mesh very well with the Lunar Way. If something is unhealed, you don't go around screaming "It's evil, kill it!" or variations thereof.
> After all, they find Thanatar and Malia to be "evil" just like
> everyone else.
Ordinary Lunars might find Thanatari and Malians to be evil and worthy of destruction, but the Irin School is supposed to be the teachings of a Lunar Hero with superior insight. That's part of the reason why the cult doesn't work for me.
> So we already had chaos that was "OK" (the Lunar magic that has
> chaos) and chaos that we "bad" (the Thanatari).
Careful now, Thanatar isn't bad because it is chaotic. Thanatar is bad because it is an *Orlanthi* custom.
> But I agree the write-up in the book is pretty sparse. Maybe more > of something to develop yourself than something you can use as is.
I do wish the writers of the Lunar Cults could have put more effort into creating cults to use as is rather than just writing something to further develop yourself.
> In any case, in the end what we have struggled with is finding a
> good definition of what is "healed" chaos and what is "unhealed"
> chaos.
The unhealed chaos theme was only a brief line in Gods of Glorantha and isn't a core tenet of the Lunar Way. Chaos only appears evil and frightening because *you* have not come to terms with your own fears about what you do not know. Seeking to "heal" chaos is like putting a cat in a cage for all eternity. The ideal response is to cease to fear chaos so that it will have no power over you and to teach others to do likewise.
--Peter Metcalfe
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