Subcults

From: Chris Lemens <chrislemens_at_...>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 21:34:07 -0800 (PST)

Page 120 says:
"An initiate or devotee of the same religion can learn
the subcult's or hero cult's magic without actually joining, as long as he is eligible to join. He spend the hero points to learn the affinity (as a normal affinity) or feat (as a stand-alone magical ability). Even a devotee of the deity cannot use the feats within the affinity without switching his devotion to the subcult, although a narrator might allow an initiate or devotee to learn a single feat from an affinity, rather than spending hero points to learn the affinity itself."

Question 1. Does the second sentence above mean that an initiate of a deity can learn and use a feat of a subcult "as a stand-alone magical ability" without first learning the affinity of the subcult?

Question 2. If the answer to Question 1 is no, does the third sentence intend to give narrators discretion to allow it anyway?

Page 120 also says:
"Subservient cults (subcults) worship petty deities or
heroes and provide one affinity or feat."

Question 3. Within the context of the Heortling religion, is Destor (for example) a subcult of Orlanth within the meaning of page 120, such that a Desemborth initiate coud learn Destor's Wind affinity or Call Clouds feat?

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Chris Lemens

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