> Yes, but Greg's point is that he is *never* called "the Thunder
> God" / "the God of Thunder", in the way us RuneQuesters commonly
> refer to Gloranthan deities as "Death God", "God of Cattle", etc.
>
> Parallel would be calling Orlanth "the Storm", not "the Storm God"
> (or indeed "a Storm God"). "Humakt is Death", that kinda thing.
>
> Homeric divine epithets are fun. This is an interesting semantic
> nuance. Thanks to Greg for bringing it to our attention, even if it
> was too tricky to implement wholesale in the HW/HQ rules.
To us, he is the storm and the storm is him. To them, he is another pesky storm god. Or something like that ;-)
regards,
Charles
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