<< How wide spread is the worship of Yelm Pantheon in the Lunar Empire ?>>
Yelm is the god of the Dara Happan aristocracy. Thus, he is only worshipped directly by upper class male Dara Happans - a very influential, but not especially numerous, group. The Yelm Pantheon is probably numerically more important in the Empire than the Lunar one (many people worship both IMO) although most of the political clout belongs to the Lunars these days. Having said that, in many parts of the Empire, it is indeed the Lunars who have the dominant pantheon both numerically and politically.
<< I've heard a lot of references to the Dara Happans being worshippers, but
also to them having their own Gods.>>
The Dara Happan pantheon *is* the Yelm pantheon, more or less. However, the pantheon includes many deities not mentioned in RQ sources, such as Oria and Buserian.
<< - - Do the Storm Gods get worshipped (Orlanth and Stormbull are illegal in
the
empire, correct ?)>>
No storm worship in the Orlanthi sense, although there are Dara Happan/Pelorian deities associated with the element, such as Shargash and Doburdun. Many are specifically deities of peaceful air rather than storm, e.g. Entekos. Also, there are many ex-Orlanthi in the southern provinces, who do worship members of that pantheon, although generally not the rebellious and antisocial ones such as Orlanth Adventurous and Storm Bull.
<< ? How about the Malkioni-style Invisible God ?>>
The Carmanians follow a sect of Malkionism.
<< - - I've found a fair number of write-ups for Cults in the Lunar Pantheon,
collected most of them, sorted them into feasible PC Cults and infeasible PC
Cults. Has anyone made some sort of a definitive list ? There's a big list
of all Cults on kerofin.something.com, but I'm thinking more Lunar specific.
- - - Some interesting sounding cults are written up in back issues of
magazines.>>
A particularly good list of Lunar cults is to be found in 'Rough Guide to Glamour', available from the Megacorp. A good list of Dara Happan, Pelorian, Carmanian and Rinliddian deities is available in Enclosure #1 under the somewhat misleading title of 'Gods & Goddess of the Lunar Empire', although very few actual *Lunar* cults are mentioned, despite their obvious importance. So to get the full list, you need both publications.
Forward the glorious Red Army!
Trotsky
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