No seeming contradictions and a worthy theory, but it does assume that the different laws are competing (and contradictory). I don't think this is the case. I think all four major world models are equally true because they are symbolic interpretations of the real state of affairs, which is unknown and unknowable to the Gloranthans themselves.
All world models _explain_ the world in a workable manner, but they _are_ not the world. In real world physics, light can be seen as both particles and waves. Both work in computations and both are correct insofar that they can be used to explain the world, but neither says for sure what light really is.
Naturalism, theism, spiritism and mysticism all provide a consistent explanation of Glorantha which work for their believers (giving access to magic etc.) and are thus true, but since they are all true they must be models, not the "real thing".
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