Why doesn't the Lunar Empire's Cult of the Young Elementals provide Lunar-types with air elementals/Sylphs?
In the old RQ system, I believe that the reason was partly game balance; Lunars got Lunes instead. And the terriffic mobility advantages given by the Orlanthi access to air/storm magic helped to balance out other Lunar advantages. It also helped differentiate the onew side from the other; they didn't both have the same magics.
But I don't see that this follows mythicly, or even logicaly. The newer revalations of GRoY, FS, and particularly the Entekosiad show that air goddesses, speficily Molanni and Entekos, are well known in Peloria. Is it beyond the power of these goddesses to grant Sylphs? You'd think the Lunars would work out a way to get air magics from these cults, in order to fight the Orlanthi barbarians in Sartar! Not to mention the possibility of getting these magics from the 'Lunarized' Orlanthi dwelling in the Empire & its allies, from Bilinni to Talastar.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Y Andrew Joelson joelsona_at_cpdmfg.cig.mot.com -|-aka Rupert von Harl; Cults of Seven Mothers, Yanafal Tarnils and Humakt | "Contradiction? No, I always did tend to kill chaos creatures anyway" /
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