Does Bevara look like a major deity? I just don't think that small cults can have disciples.
> > I doubt Issaries has disciples as I
> > have trouble with the image of Gringle Goodsell as a hero.
>I think he may be a hero-former of an Issaries Sub Cult, which would
>also account for his periodic absences from Apple Lane...
You mean Issaries the Werewolf?
> > 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?).
>Hard to say until we know more about what a disciple is.... (do you
>mean a devotee to Orlanth the Great God here?)
Doesn't really matter whether it's a devotee or an initiate. I just used initiate as a catchall for one who worships the great god rather than an aspect.
>If a Disciple is
>one "trying to become" the god by acting like them, and a Devotee to
>a Great God becomes subsumed by them on learning the secret, the end
>result is as close to the same as makes no odds, but presumably being
>a disciple is more than just learning the Cult secret....
But what would be the magical advantages of being a disciple of Humakt then if disciplehood merely confers the ability to learn the magic of all the god's aspects? The only thing I can think of might be the ability to join subcults and learn their secrets without limit (as opposed to the single secret rule on page 166 of HW:RiG). But that falls apart if a devotee of Orlanth Adventurous, say, can learn the secret of a subcult (on the grounds that it's a lower magnitude than the god's secrets) in addition to the secret of Orlanth Adventurous.
>Does this mean you don't think it is possible to be a disciple of an
>Aspect of a (Great) god (eg Orlanth Adventurous, Orlanth Lawspeaker
>etc)
I only said the possibility was complicated by the existence of initiates to great gods and that I couldn't see what a disciple would do in terms of magical power that a great god initiate couldn't.
>- This would leave them in a strange position where you could
>have
>Hero-cult - Hero Former
A hero former is merely an initiate of a hero cult who knows the secret of heroforming the hero. Some subcults teach heroforming [Vogarth the Big/Strong Man] as their cult secret, others [Vanganth] do not.
>God's Cult - Disciple
Most cults do not have disciples and so I don't think every god's cult can.
> > Greg once wrote that there was about 2% of the general population
>
>[were Runelords]
And Runepriests.
--Peter Metcalfe
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