>The whole point in illumination is to see law and chaos as two parts
>of the whole like in Cults of terror. This is what Nysalor/Gbaji taught.
This is not the "whole point" of illumination and illumination itself is only an incomplete understanding of the Cosmos, being a surviving fragment of what Nysalor taught. What Illumination teaches is that the knowledge that what everybody says or believes is wrong. Because most people say that Chaos is evil, this is known by the illuminate to be wrong.
>Rashoran was born from the light that Xiola Umbar saw
That was either Aether or Yelm, not Rashoran.
>and began to helped different races and
>tribes to understand each other so the could work together against
>chaotics of Greater darkness.
According to the Glorantha: Intro (p15), Rashoran was active during the Lesser Darkness (or the Storm Age) and merely taught other gods how not to be afraid. He was murdered by the Unholy Trio, who abused his knowledge to unleash Chaos into Glorantha. Rashoran did not oppose the chaotics of the Greater Darkness.
There's also the Lunar myth about him which differs.
>The illumination of Nysalor/Gbaji states that
>illuminates have knowledge of law and chaos being basically same.
That was written in the context of a book about chaotic cults and when the best-known teaching of the Lunar Way appeared to be an acceptance of chaos. Since the Lunars has now revealed to be far more than just an empire of chaos symps, the knowledge of cosmos and chaos being the same is _not_ the cardinal insight of illumination. It _is_ something that an illuminate can come to understand in a way that the benighted cannot but one can be an illuminate without ever having anything to do with chaos.
FWIW even Cults of Terror said the Dark Side of Illumination was not chaos but something else.
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