>On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Roderick and Ellen Robertson wrote:
> > They exist in Glorantha, they just haven't had rules written for them
> > because they are so rare. In all of Dragon Pass there are maybe half a
> > dozen Humakt Disciples, and he is in the top three for number of
> > disciples. Most cults do not have disciples.
>Whoa. That few? I'm guessing that many players, espially eq-RQers, will
>want to be disciples.
I think they would want to be heroes instead.
>Most cults don't? Any ideas which do/don't?
>
>Eg., what about Issaries and Lhankor My? Or is it a warrior cult thing
>(I hope not)?
Given the detail that disciples spend about 90% of their time imitating their god's actions, one should be able to have a fair guess whether disciples exist for certain gods.
For example, I can't imagine disciples for Bevara, Odayla, Hedkorath or Vanganth. I doubt Issaries has disciples as I have trouble with the image of Gringle Goodsell as a hero. Lhankor Mhy and Chalana Arroy seem alright as deities in which one can spend 90% of one's time following. Whether Orlanth and Ernalda can have disciples is probably complicated by their Great God status (after all, what's the difference if any between a disciple of Orlanth and an initiate to Orlanth the Great God?). Likewise the existence of Urox disciples is probably complicated by his defiant nature.
>Anybody ever venture a semi-offical opinion on how many RQ runelords
>there were? Just wondering how much of a change this is.
Greg once wrote that there was about 2% of the general population (c.f. What It Takes To... Convince the Examiners in Wyrms Footprints). However most of this in HW would now be taken up by Devotees and social positions such as Ring Members, Priests and Warband Leaders.
--Peter Metcalfe
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