Personally, I don't see how magic would cure harelip or clubfoot. It seems to me that healing magic works by bringing the patient back to his or her "normal" body configuration, which includes the deformity. If you did an kind of operation on a patient's lip, casting "heal" to stop the bleeding would presumably restore the harelip. And trying to fix a cleft palate without healing magic just seems way beyond Gloranthan medical skill.
Consider the sad state of Earthly medical skill throughout most of history. Now consider that Gloranthan technical medicine is, if anything, _inferior_ to Earth's, since they mostly rely on Heal magic. There are some Gloranthan magics that tend to prevent or limit deformed births, but I don't know of any that cure them. Case in point: trollkin.
Erik Nolander
>Since the Mostali don't worship gods as such, I'm thinking of having
Flintnail as a sort of Hero cult instead (maybe this is >what was
intended from the start).
Flintnail may well be a Hero cult, but in any case the Mostali of Pavis are apostate dwarfs, who are perfectly able to worship gods as they please.
>Also, would all spells have to be converted to sorcery spells?
It might be more interesting if they were. But technically they don't _have_ to be, because apostate dwarfs can learn spirit & rune magic.
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