> << The CoP cult write-up mentions non-humans as being permitted to
> join.>>
>
> More of a concession to the early style of gaming than anything
> else, I
> suspect. Non-humans probably can join, but I suspect its rather
> difficult, and there'd have to be a good reason to be adopted into
> an Orlanthi clan, town or whatever. I don't think OA exists in
> complete isolation from society, purely as a god of wandering
> adventurer bands, although I'll certainly concede that that's what's
> implies in RQ2.
But, Kitori have trolls in an Orlanthi society, albeit heavily influenced by the Kyger Litor culture, their trolls could well belong to Orlanth. Wind Children can join Orlanth in all its forms, for obvious reasons as can Minotaurs, although they prefer Storm Bull. Also, I can see valid reasons for allowing wandering Orlanthi bands not connected to a particular tribe or clan, elspecially in areas such as Prax which is not Orlanth dominated.
Jane Williams:
> Chris Bell had some good bits from really ancient sources:
> > membership is open to "Any who hold breath in their lungs", as
> > according
> to Cults of Prax,
> Hmmm. Sure that was OA, not OT? The Air connection sounds more
> Thunderous to me. It seems to have been dropped from the RoC writeup
> for some reason.
I always thought that this was to exclude Zombies :-)
David Dunham:
> To take an Orlanthi example, kinstrife is Chaos. This doesn't seem
> to be the case in Dara Happa, though presumably kin do kill each
> other occasionally.
Especially in the Dart Wars/Dynastic struggles.
> As to the lack of mythic importance, I must fault your logic. There
> are after all no myths of Issaries, Chalana Arroy, or Lhankor Mhy,
> except the LBQ. This implies that their mythic role is simply
> Orlanth's followers. Which surely isn't correct. Heck, I'm not even
> sure there are any Ernalda myths that don't include Orlanth.
So, Lhankor Mhy wooing his wife is part of the Lightbringer Quest, as is his being instrumental in defeating an army led by Tien?
Daniel McCluskey:
> As an unexpected bit support to Pam's Idea that the pelorians are
> somehow better at resisting chaos than the Orlanthi, one should
> note that the MOST historically successful chaos-fighters in
> glorantha are the Black Sun worshipping trolls of the Kingdom of
> Ignorance. Trollpack lists two major decisive victories against
> chaos by the KoI trolls, and NO losses -- an utterly unprecedented
> success rate for ANY gloranthan culture (I think...)
Apart from the fact that Yelm destroyed a Chaotic Foe as part of his claim to be Emperor and was not troubled by Chaos during the rest of his reign. Clearly, Yelm was pretty good at Slime Hacking and Chaos only really entered the world after Orlanth killed Yelm and started the Gods War which left huge great cracks in the Cosmos and let Ragnaglar, Thed and Mallia summon Wakboth into existence.
Also, Kralorela seems to be pretty much unaffected by Chaos, perhaps the Dragon Emperor and his Big Subjects ate it all up.
> Another possible interpretation is that by ignoring the
> "chaoticness" of chaos, the Solar cultures are able to deny it a
> large chunk of its power. Thus, the "Terrible Chaos
> Monstrosities(tm)" that the orlanthi fight, become "just another
> buncha' digijelm" when facing Yelmies.
In the same way as the Carmanians Demonised Dragons to make them easier to kill.
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