Then again, one could argue that where one has a "real" entity with a transcendent connection (e.g. a god, whose domain is accordingly "nournished by" the cosmos without needing to be propped up by zero-sum-game worship) will often accrete "shortish" features to it. That is, such a place will have a "fundamentally real" basis, but some of it's apparent features may be extraneous, being at bottom creations of long custom and practice by some significant group of worshippers Always Having Done It This Way, and thus perceiving such-and-such as an integral part of that domain, whether or not that was "originally" so.
I throw this in just because it's more grist to the mill of the useful ambiguity about _not necessarily being infallibly able to tell_ which portions of the otherside are Cosmic Truth, and which are Cosmic Scams (and which are somewhere in between), which personally I find damn _useful_, for Glorantha as a place to game in, and to express some of the subtleties of Real Religion(TM) in.
Julian Lord:
> To clarify, 'this' in my mind = "changes in the number and/or roster
> and/or nature [and/or whatever it was (precisely) that Alex was
> proposing when he first mentioned Odayla] of Glorantha's Prime Runes
> and/or their Owners"
None of the above, really. I specifically was asserting (or giving vent to my convention-addled understanding...) that Odalya was the Great God of the Sylilans _in the cultural sense_ (he's the means by which they understand the secrets of existence, he's the male path god, etc). I certainly amn't setting about constructing an "Odalya Core Rune", which would figure in certain other definitions of "Greater God", specifically say the RQ3:Bk5 one. ("Must have own High Rune and be prepared to travel.")
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