That's not at all clear, actually.
Illumination has tangible consequences as well as perceptive consequences; it is, for instance, mentioned in :DLoD: that an illuminate is no longer bound by their species nature. (The reference is to Ogres and blood lust, I believe.)
> just because a Stormbull
> fails his Sense Chaos roll does not mean that he is "convinced" that
> there is no Chaos present.) IMHO, no Stormbull could possibly believe in
> the "cleansed" Broo concept.
Probably not, but it's a good argument that it might *not* be Chaos, and there's the sticky problem that all broo do not necessarily look like goat headed men with dung in their hair. Broo have just about the entire range of potential human personality types, if perhaps somewhat narrower ranges of goals, and they can look like damn near anything, including normal humans.
Another thing on my 'sadistic someday' list is rabbit broo - they're small, and they're more or less defenseless if you can hit them, but they leap out of the foliage, fasten themselves over your face, and attempt to rape your nose. This is very distracting for you, and it presents your friends with the awful quandry that this thing on your face is very hard to hit without hiting you, too.
> Stormbull would answer any doubts. The correct response to this suggestion,
> is , of course: "What doubts?" Is there ANY question a Stormbull Priest
> could possibly ask of Stormbull that is more ABSURD than "Is such-and-such
> Broo Chaotic?" It's a long story, but let's just say this "Hero" wasn't
> quite enough of one to handle a Berserk Stormbull Lord-Priest, or to
> survive a critical pole axe to the abdomen.
This is an example of bad reality presentation, though. Things do not come with little labels that say 'broo', 'ogre', 'just an ugly human', and so forth floating above their heads. (Well - maybe if you're an Arachne Solara Rune Lord with an enhanced Soul Sight spell.)
If one dashes to the sight of a great deal of roaring and screaming and awful wet thuds to discover something of suitably bad reputation (bunch of dragonsnails, walktapodes, whatever) being chopped into collops by a hulking great human figure with a bull's head, the hero light shinning around them and glinting off the wet edge of their axe as they hack, what do you think?
No sense chaos going off; presumably enough knowledge of the legends to recall that some of Storm Bull's sons had human bodies and bull's heads; no grounds to complain of particular conduct; it talks; no inappropriate runes of whatever description showing (or, likely enough, present.) What's a good Storm Bull to do?
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