Desperately Seeking Acos

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 19:06:53 +1300


Daniel Fahey: 
IT>>>My line of questioning originated from wondering if some of the

>>>supposedly dead gods of the Celestial Court could still be worshipped
>>>by some relic elder societies somewhere

Me>>I'm not aware of any place specifically associated with Acos...

>Daniel: What about the Block? If I needed some bonding with the Law Rune
>I'd go there.

I had considered that but Acos is the Stasis Rune, not the Law Rune, and the Spike encompassed all the Celestial Court. Hence I'm not certain there's a special stasis-rune area there or that it's holy to Acos.

>There are those references to pilgrims going to the Block. Who are
>they?

Lhankor Mhy (said to have Law and Truth in Gods of Glorantha). 

	The Block, the largest existing chunk of the Spike, is
	a very Holy Place to the sages.  Every Year during the
	sacred time, caravans of pilgrim Sages arrive at the
	Spike (sic!) for their sacred investigations.  They pay
	well to be guarded carefully by the Priests and Kahns
	of the Storm Bull, although those beserker nomads have
	very little regard for the learning of the Cult.
				Cults of Prax p72

However there are two other types of pilgrims because at page 19, Bituarian Varosh notes that the pilgrims looked upon Storm Bullies butchering a mule with "disgust, fear, or hunger according to their cults". Perhaps the sorcerors of God Forgot are another type of pilgrim but I can't think of a third (the Aeolians don't seem to be overly concerned with the Law Rune and the Seshnegi are too recent).

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