> How do they do this? Is it a HeroQuest, could be since they could need =
> to mess with the Myths or quests for a Myth that links Pavis with the =
> Lunar Pantheon? Is it a marketing ploy like Seven Mothers?
As far as I know it's simpler than that. You have a Priestess of the Full Moon in a shrine in Pavis. She prepares herself ritually to be able to take on the Form of the Goddess. The Priests of Pavis and the Lunar Empire negotiate a political deal, hammering out who is in charge of what. Then the Priestess of the Red Moon performs a HeroQuest (probably several in fact) and makes Pavis an offer he can't refuse. Usually this takes the form of magical gifts, new powers, influence beyond his own. Pavis can then either accept, in which case everyone is happy, or reject the offer in which case the Lunars fall on the Rubble like a ton of bricks and trash the Temple. Hard Choice.
V.S. Greene
> Still, a
> non-Illuminated chaos worshipping Humakti doesn't _feel_ right to me.
In our multi-GM campaign we had a number of Orlanth/Humakt cultists (Wind Lords Associate Sword Priests). One of the GMs took great delight in occasionally bringing in a Chaotic Humakti Sword (normally a broo or Scorpionman, but once a Walkatpus with 8 swords) and watching us all line up to challenge it to single combat in the Humakti way. Of course, some of us were in Storm Bull too (Illumination again - wonderful) and sometimes we just flipped out - not nice. Of course, our swords didn't break so Humakt must have agreed with our methods.
Fabian Kuechler:
> Are the Chaos-gods part of the Great Compromise?
Wakboth is by his exclusion (Cults of Terror, somewhere). Some of the others may be. Primal Chaos certainly is as it is part of Glorantha. I would guess that any owner of a Rune is part of the Compromise. Certainly the Red Goddess, a major Chaos Goddess, is an integral part of the Compromise.
This means that anyone who rids the world of Chaos then destroys the world, allowing Chaos back in. Fun, eh?
Sergio Mascarenhas:
> One of the things that I think Glorantha lacks is a woman touch. I mean,
> most of that universe is male oriented.
Apart from the Lunar Empire, the Earth Pantheons, The Trolls, Scorpion Folk, Theyalans in general ......
Sorry, but the Male vs Female contest does not apply to the Lunar Expansion.
Simon
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