Well, I've always assumed they were just a school of shamans that acknowledged the Red Goddess. There are plenty of local shamanic traditions within the various outskirts of Peloria (can't remember any of the names, the old Gloranthan lore must be slipping, but there are Darjiin ones mentioned in GRoY IP edition, and various Pelandan ones in the Entekosiad, for example). I guess it could simply be a group that was set up by a few shamanic RG converts early in history, or it could be a creation of the Lunar College of Magic administrators.
I have generally suspected that they are relatively few in number.
In rules terms, a shaman can become an initiate of the Red Goddess
providing they are illuminated, and have mastered Ceremony and (a ritual
magic skill?). Assuming the School of Red Masks are drawn from such ranks,
they are both
Alternatively, they can be let in if they have priest status is a Lunar cult - but I thought that this would be very difficult for practicing shamans.
In Nomad Gods, they were a relatively weak magician unit, (2/4/4/5, if that means anything to you). The Lunar spirits that they are likely to access in Prax include the Redwood, the Watchdog of Corflu, and the otherwise unknown (to me) Little Moon.
They was a partial attempt at writing them up in the RQ:AIG draft but I wouldn't go out of your way to track it down, as it was mostly just an example of using the RQ:AIG shaman rules, which will probably never resurface in any form (if we are lucky) and bore little resemblence to any shaman rules before or since.
My players may end up fighting them, if they don't go out of their way to avoid them. They will hate it more than they can imagine.
Cheers
David
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