Me>> IMO most Safelstran peasants are Stygian
>> just like their elders and betters in the city because it offers
>> them the chance of becoming one of the Hidden Masters.
>Or Rokari, where Rokarism has taken a stronger hold (presumably the
>saint-worshipping variant rather than the iconoclasts), or more
>backward.
I think one can be a Rokari Stygian. It requires one be a crypto- (remember Arkat started out as one) and embrace the Rokari Creed as an lie of the deceiver that is to be mastered/destroyed for spiritual enlightenment. Thus these Stygians look to outsiders like ordinary sorcery-using Rokari.
Admittedly being a crypto-Brithini is rather sad and so I think that this is an unhappy compromise of native Stygian beliefs and enforced Rokarism by nearby Tanisor.
I don't think all Rokari in Safelster are Stygians but that are significant proportion are.
End of The Glorantha Digest V7 #280
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