Put that way round, I have far fewer objections to it, and the latter part's exactly what I was arguing, myself. (As was Stephen's O. Rex counterexample, among other things.)
Having said that, I doubt it's actually true. C&A has a rather odd structure, but only one real "Rune Level" position. (Which is a "twofer", of course, somewhat obfiscating matters.) Chalana Arroy and Lhankor Mhy both seem very likely to be merged, and just have yer standard RP's. Strike "will" and insert "are more likely to" and you'd get no (more) arguments.
> some Sartar tribes worship Orlanth Adventurous without worshiping
> Thunderous, some Thunderous without Adventurous.
Of course, in that sense: Prax is the obvious example of the former instance. I'm not quite so sure if this is actually ever the case in _Sartar_, though; perhaps in the case of the Elmal tribes? (Steadfast Elmal keeps the hearth and tribe safe, Orlanth goes off galivanting.) What I'm skeptical of is the aspects being separate and co-existant, as I said before.
I think a lot or rural areas certainly only worship O. Thunderous. Go back a few centuries, and I think it would have been altogether rarer, and possibly unknown.
> Some worship Orlanth Dragonslayer without either Thunderous
> OR Adventurous. He has also indicated that some might worship Orlanth Rex
> or Orlanth Lightbringer as their Orlanth cult.
I think the Lightbringer aspect/version is a Big Modern City Thing. Cities have the congregation base to support the other Lightbringers as proper, independant cults, are less concerned with the Big O's weather and freebooting aspects. If the sort of Generic Pantheon Initiate/Lay Member status some Listers insist on exists, it seems to me to most likely to be some sort of "lesser" initiation into Orlanth Lightbringer - -- on the basis that decadent citydwellers best channel the Orlanth Backslider aspect. I'd imagine this as being a lot like the published version of the cult, though with a smaller core of Orlanth magic and the "traditional" sub-cults, much emphasis on the associates, and relatively lax time and tithing requirements. Though it may be simply that fewer city folk get properly initiated at all, or they do so later in life.
> This has led me to favor a modular cult format for the Orlanth cult
> -- shared initiation, then you fill in the main aspect, subcults, and
> associates depending on your tribe's mythology.
That's pretty much how I read the current version. Making it more explicit that Your Orlanth May Vary would be helpful, though, it's true.
Slainte,
Alex.
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