Actually, yes it does, for me. Glorantha, not only needs these guys, but has had them.
IMHO Zzaburites are the "responsible" scientists, writing papers (addenda and errata to Grimoires) on what they can verify without distorting and getting on with "real" science - discovering what fundamental force has been corrupted by a rogue who had "gone theistic" e.g. Worlath, Humkt, Ehilm, etc. The list is (from their point of view) unfortunately endless .
The *mad* scientists were the (Da!Da!DUM!) God Learners, who lost track of
the whole point of studying the fundamentals of Glorantha - the absolute
beauty of understanding the perfect order, created (purely *and*
necessarily) from chaos.
To me the original Zzaburites are A-theistic, in the strict RW sense.
So that doesn't fly with most people. But I look at it this way... The problem in Glorantha is that HeroQuests can (and do) change the local equivalent of the laws of physics. No wonder Zzabur decided to leave, when the state of the universe was so corrupted by selfish God Learner Quests, They were even worse than Arkat - at least he respected the extant structure and changed *himself* to accommodate it. (My own personal spin).
Graeme P. Bell
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