Dawn Age Religions

From: Greg Stafford <greg_at_glorantha.com>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 20:48:12 -0700

At 04:41 PM 5/13/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>David Dunham:
>
>>I don't think the people of Ralios are
>>at all Heortling, even though they have adopted some Heortling
>>cultural practices (and the Heortling religion).
>
>The Heortlings are not the sole source of Orlanthi worship. There
>are also the Talastings and the Harandings. So the fact that the
>Lanksti and the Delelans (and Saug etc.) worship Orlanth, does not
>mean they adopted the Heortling religion. The Lanksti are derived
>from the Dawn Age Karians, which means their ancestors were probably
>Talastings rather than Heortlings. The Delelans as part of the EWF
>might have adopted Heortling practices, but I prefer to keep their
>ways unlike the Heortlings.

I would interject a piece of information here too.

A characteristic of all peoples that survived the Darkness is their own "How We Survived" myth.
The " Fought We Won" is the secret story of the Heortlings. The Dragon Pass peoples were one of the stronger human groups that survived the Darkness, in large part due to their relationship with Orlanth, leader of the LBQ.
After the Dawn missionaries from Dragon Pass Heortlings went out to "bring the light" to the rest of the half-blind world. They wen through Wenelia and into Ralion in the first couple centuries. They brought the religon of Orlanth and the LBQ (but did not share the Heortling secret of IFWW because the people already had their own story). The really small human populations of the Dawn Age did not give much variation to the rituals and practices of the Orlanthi Religion for the first 500 years. Of course the fractious actions of the GbajiWars brought forth all the differences at first, then the unities. In the Imperial Age the regional Orlanthi practices diverged, but they still recognize the same Orlath entity now, since the most divergent Dragonic Orlanthi were all (yes All (Yes, I mean the "Orlanthi all")) killed. Alakoring was relatively traditional at that time, and the Ralios form of worship was brought back to Peloria and Dragon Pass as his "old way." Through all of this, the various "How we survived the darkness" story would have been a part of the various different regional religions.

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