A week or two ago Sandy put a piece on the digest about kralorelan
martial art styles. It was very interesting - shame 'quack-fu'
wasn't there though (to learn martial arts from a grandmaster one must
learn it from a duck). However, i was confused (i blame the troll drinks).
What is 'mysticism?' How do you get it, and what is it used for? Is it a
heroquesting stat?
I remember being similarly befuddled by the heroquest issue of TOTRM,
which seemed to say that heroquesters got stats. Obviously, there are
passions and traits, like pendragon, but there was also things called
'death fame' or 'wind fame.' I know most people heroquest in a systemless
way, but what did these mean...? Like mysticism, how did you get it, and
what was it used for?
I know its all a bit academic now, but i am interested in small
esoteric things like this.
Dominic.
PS. I've been thinking about the idea that someone had about different
cultures effectively worshipping the same gods, but calling them
different things, or worshipping different aspects of them. Could the
'world machine' and malkionism (in its gods of glorantha incarnation) be
the same thing? They both seem similarly mechanistic, as if one was
worshipping 'the laws of nature' or instrumental reason, rather than
deities. I could be utterly wrong of course.