I'm sure if you said "Storm Bull" to a Sartarite he'd know whom you meant, since he probably knows the Praxians call him that, and it may even, on the strength of one (1) KoS reference, be a title of his used by Sartarites. But it seems obvious to me from KoS that Sartarites call him Urox. Nick speaks as if there were great tracts of published knowledge of the Sartarite Storm Bull, overturned by this Evil Gregging, which is (sadly) far from true.
> (It *would* cause a problem, for the converse reason, if
> people tried to abolish the name of "Storm Bull" by replacing it with "Urox" at
> every turn. Bad Alex.)
Huh. This is the sort of Backwards Compatibility At All Costs logic that made Windows what it is today. (Popular, and crap.) Let's not get carried away, this is hardly another (Y)elmal(io).
> The 'Hunger' Rune is also known as 'Undead' -- on first appearance it was
> defined as this, before the generic concept was found more useful.
You seem to have misspelt "less", Nick.
> In our game, the Yanafali Death Rune is curved...
Makes sense; but it could be a tad impractical for croissantifying people upon. Though heaven knows, any number of funny things have been used in the Real World.
> > Do Ernalda initiates stick with the Grain Goddess they originally
> > worshipped? Or, do they change grain goddesses when they move to a
> > new region?
> I think she would be puzzled if you tried to sacrifice another point of POW to
> her just because you were living on a different part of her body and raising her
> in a different form. Mind you, she wouldn't refuse it!
Tsk, tsk, what a God Learnerish answer. Myself, I'd say it depended much more on how keen the local yokels were on accepting you as a co-worshipper without Extensive Conversion Rites. (Fairly keen, according to GoG.) For the most part they'll worship the local Grain Goddess, unless the incomers' cult and grain is known as a minor crop (or the incomers introduce both).
Sandy sayeth:
> The Earth Rune is a basically dualistic Rune, and so
> all earth gods get only one or the other Rune, but whichever one you
> have, it's the "full" Earth Rune. The God Learners only used one of
> the Runes and didn't bother to have a different Rune for benign and
> malign.
Why do you say that? 'Cos the Malign form has no ("Greater God") source? I'd have thought its frequent appearance in the pages of that nest of GL iniquity, GoG <g> would have suggested that these were both part of the Official God Learner Crinkle-Cut Rune Set (TM). Witness both appearing ascribed to assorted deities of two different separate pantheons.
Alex.
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