>With all due respect, I'm getting the shivers as I read this. I'm quite
>certain my impression is wrong, but I get a very strong sense of enforced
>gloranthan correctnes. So I'll say this anyway. Don't be fooled: There
>is not one true glorantha, and there is certainly not one true humakt. And
>even if it is so I think that in what situations a humakt cultist choses
>to use his berserker magice is much more dependent on his/her personality
>than some abstract cultural stereotype.
On the other hand there is every reason to take the published Glorantha as the default and while there almost certainly are "bad" Humakti they are likely to have poorer relations with the cult and their God as a result. Anyway if you want to be a Berserker why not play an Uroxi instead ? (In RQ2 Storm Bull gave the Berserker spell while Humakt gave the Morale spell which did not include the negative effects of Fanaticism).
>From the (very) short cult description at
http://www.glorantha.com/library/religions/cult-humakt.html
"He encourages honor and courage, and disdains pointless slaughter"
How does that square with killing allies ?
In short there are good reasons to think that a good Humakti does not routinely go berserk. Assuming the usual view of Humakt, that is.
Further, as I understand "Death Song" it usually means that the singer is *expecting* to die. Following that interpretation a Humakti who berserks against an easily-defeated opponent is going to be ridiculed by other Humakti (and probably by the worshippers of other warrior deities, too).
-- "The T'ang emperors were strong believers in the pills of immortality. More emperors died of poisoning from ingesting minerals in the T'ang than in any other dynasty" - Eva Wong _The Shambhala Guide to Taoism_ Paul K.
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