> For example,
> The Heortlings have several High Holy Days during the Sacred time. The
> Lightbringers are the main focus, of course. The LBQ is relived by
> worshippers of specific cults, and everyone else does I Fought We Won. Now,
> what do *you* think would happen if an entire clan decided *not* to do these
> quests? For them the Darkness would not end! The sun would be weak and
> wounded Elmal, not the strong and vigorous Elmal who was healed at the Dawn.
> Chaos and Darkness would attack the tula constantly. Crops wouldn't grow,
> animals would die, the ground would give up its fertility because Ernalda
> and her sisters are asleep. The air wouldn't move correctly; either it would
> stop entirely, or chaos and spirit winds would blow. The clan isn't just
> re-enacting the quests, they are preserving the world.
OK, but then what happens when there are conversions to another cult, especially mass conversions. This is a point that has always been obscure to me: what is the mechanism of conversion in Glorantha.
Christoph
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