Rob Nicholls presented a hero cult and
>Wolfsbane (divine spell)
>touch, temporal, non-stackable, reusable, 2 points.
>This spell gives the target the following benefits for its duration.
>He receives +1 to his movement rate, suffers only 1/2 of the normal
>fatigue loss and is unhindered by wintry conditions (such as snow,
>driving rain, bitter cold etc). He also receives +10% to all attacks
>against wolves/Telmori who act as though demoralised when fighting
>the target.
It's not clear how the first part is related to wolves. I'll be a true Wolfbane would be something that prevented the wolf pack from operating as a pack (though such an effect would probably be more powerful than a 2-point rune spell).
>it might be subject to Gregging (or Sandying or
>whatever) especially if anything more official comes out on Sartar.
I wouldn't worry; Sartar is no doubt full of small hero cults like this, and as this one doesn't pretend to have a wide influence, there shouldn't be a problem.
Peter Metcalfe answered me
>>which makes me wonder about Basim and its ruling Basmol clan. I certainly
>>don't expect lions roaming around Ralios, but I assume these Basmoli still
>>have the transformation magic (despite, on my Web page, saying the Basmoli
>>are extinct). However, I would imagine that unlike other hsunchen, lions
>>are never born to Basmoli mothers.
>
>What's wrong with Big Cats in Ralios? Not that these lions are like the
>African savannah ones IMO. They could be like the lions in India which
>are more forest orientated, I think.
As in my message, Sandy said there weren't any. Not that it's ecologically impossible (hey, if there were zebras, there could be lions to eat them), but Basmol was killed (I'm working up a myth where Trickster causes Humath to do the dirty deed), and this mythical act had a significant physical impact.
>And as for 'lions never born to Basmoli mothers', the Praxian Basmoli
>are accompanied by sterile male lions. How do you think they get hold
>of them?
That would work, though there certainly wouldn't be any free-running lions. (If this is the case, then other hsunchen would occasionally give birth to fertile offspring. I suspect the frequency would be about once per clan per generation.)
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