GAZZA
>Now, I _thought_ that the term "Orlanthi" referred to "a racial
>subtype of people who worship the Storm pantheon" (more or less).
>To be specific, you can be an Orlanthi and worship (say) Ernalda,
>or Storm Bull, or Humakt, or (according to Sun County) even
>Yelmalio.
>
>However, the terms I'm seeing banded about ("Humakti", "Elmali",
>and so on) suggest to me that, in fact, you're only "Orlanthi" if
>you actually worship Orlanth as your primary deity. Have I missed
>something somewhere?
Exactly. This terminology has caused confusion for a long time. Which is
why i proposed that people use 'orlanthing' when talking about members of
Orlanth-and-Ernalda-worshipping cultures and 'orlanthi' when talking about
people initiated to Orlanth.
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Mikael Raaterova [.sig omitted on legal advice]