That's an even more open-ended category, methinks. ;-) Thane is just a social rank, and explicitly includes (full-time) warriors, or if I apprehend the type of person you were originally getting at correctly, they could easily be devotees of Durev...
(I notice it does list 'head of bloodline', yes. I'm guessing this is somewhat in keeping with TR's general fuzziness (or deliberate conflation) between 'bloodline' and 'stead'.)
> As for the Purple Geezer - he's got all the hallmarks
> of a Wild Sage (i.e. he's some sort of uncultivated
> flavouring plant), which apparently you have to be a
> Devotee for (according to Storm Tribe). So, to cut a
> long story short, buggered if I know.
Buggered likewise, indeed.
I suppose my intuition is that for some 'sufficiently high' degree of magical specialisation and power, there out to be some in-Glorantha reason _for_ becoming a devotee -- whether magical in and of itself, or social, or whatever. The account of this in the game(-mechanics) as it stands is a little less than compelling.
Powered by hypermail