Re: Mo Malia Blues

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_quicksilver.net.nz>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 20:51:34 +1200

On 7/21/2013 5:03 AM, Glass wrote:
> Six follow-up questions, some a little tangential, about the cult ecology in the world here:
>
> 1. Prosopaedia tantalizingly and uniquely assigns Malia to chaos "and troll" pantheons. This is probably a God Learner oversimplification -- Xentha is also indicated as a troll goddess -- but are there (undoubtedly scary and bad) trolls who pursue a form of disease mastery outside chaos?

Malia is a darkness rune deity and so that's probably where the troll association arose (even if by mistake). Xentha is a troll goddess by virtue of being Argan Argar's Mum.

> 2. Who in Prax worships Malia to the extent to which she appears so prominently in Nomad Gods?

The Broos. There's about 10,000 throughout the Wastelands according to the guide.

> 3. LOT replaces Malia's Primal Chaos connection with a more troublesome relationship with Vivamort. Supposedly Vivamort is the one who "returned to her some of the connection to the Primal Darkness she had lost to chaos."

That sounds more like clumsy hand-waving given that Vivamort was placed in the too-hard basket in Lords of Terror.

> 6. Who is Chalana Arroy really? Where does she come from? Why is her son such a big deal among the aldryami?
>

The Aldyrami worship a water deity called Eron who has some life associations.

--Peter Metcalfe