>If you're playing that all spells are available to everyone - perhaps.
>But farmers in Glorantha likely do what farmers everywhere do when
>faced with invading armies - give up. Farmer Geo is going to be just
>as dead if he uses Bladesharp in his fight against a squad of
>soldiers. If he gives up and gives half his grain to the soldiers,
>then he lives, and maybe only the kids starve. It's pretty brutal,
>but the Fortunate Succession is full of these kind of events. I
>imagine Orlanthi history is too - they just don't like to talk about
>it.
Orlanthi farmers are not medieval peasant farmers. Most are also
warriors. Those quashed by the Lunar boot like the Orlanthi in
Tarsh will have less warrior magic due to fact that there main cult
is probably Barntar and I am sure full Orlanth temples are few and
far between. So whats the problem.