My main quibble with this is that Argrath is claimed to be the first to come up with this idea (in DP). His ability to organize an array of shaman, witches, etc. in a coherent group proved to be effective in combating the Lunar magical regiments.
If you think about the pre-Sheng Lunar Empire, there is almost no experience with shamanic groups. DH is highly ritualized priestly magic (not even rune magic according to Greg at RQ2). Carmania is sorcery. The southern provinces are barbarian with a focus on rune magic.
So in comes Sheng with hordes of shamans. In the original Nomad Gods game, the shaman not only had fetches that they could send out, but they could contact and control other spirits, they could summon ancestral spirits, and they had more exotic abilities like summoning the soul wind or causing the powerful spirits to unleash their greater powers (some of these were listed in supplemental rules in WF, but all seem reasonable). Sheng as an extremely powerful heroquester/demigod undoubtedly tapped stronger abilities for his shamans. Perhaps they could conquer the whole classes of spirits (wolf spirits perhaps) and send those spirits racing off the spirit plane against the Lunar populace. The Lunars were defenseless against this onslaught of spirit magics until they learned in turn how to manipulate the spirit magics.
>The Pearl Throne of Bindle sits in the Satrap's qasir on the cliffs
above Harandash. This throne was carved from ivory planking,
decorated with gold and brass, encrusted with pearls, and sits before
the opened halves of a giant fresh-water clam (3 meters high, about
2.3 meters wide per half) wrested in ages past from the waters of the
Sweet Sea.
I like this description.
Peter M.?>The title 'Governer _of_the_Western_Reaches_' kind of catches
in my throat as the Carmanian name for the Governer
> "Governor of the Ancient Land of Carmania" makes me happy.
Why not use the exalted Carmanian title of 'Shah'? That seems to be the true Carmanian ruler's title.
Harald
End of Glorantha Digest V1 #253
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