Some material on this subject is in Sartar Rising. There I try to bring decisions to the focus below. It is, however, called "Making a hero band."
Your questions on this process are useful to me to know I've explained it enough.
At 09:54 AM 3/1/2001 -0000, you wrote:
>They can form a clan, no problem, but the clan founder and the wyter
>are two distinct entities.
They can become one. Many Founders are the Wyters. During their lifetime
the wyter is a different entity which becomes a part of the subsequent cult
(often the guardian inside the Otherworld Temple).
>>Is the daimon that becomes your Wyter almost totally arbitrarily chosen
>>in case no clear choice?
>Insofar as the narrator's decisions are almost totally arbitrarily, yes.
This is the most important and correct point that can be made about this
process.
>But I would expect the narrator to chose a wyter that's colourful
>and interesting.
Yes yes yes.
>I am not convinced of this. KOS p245 talks of the tension
>between "Lokamaydism" and the "Foundation Ritual" and _could_ (but
>not necessarily _should_) be read as indicating that someone that
>performs the the Foundation Ritual is worshipped during their own
>lifetime. But the foundation of an entirely new clan is a rare
>enough event that this should not have too much effect until the late
>stages of a campaign where a character is already a Hero.
A ritual exists that helps to insure a person's immortality after death
that basically makes them worshipped before they are dead, in a way both
short circuiting the divine power system and also making subsequent
divinity more likely. They do become, in essence, living and worshipped
wyters.
All mortals wishing to obtain immortality as deities have to undergo some
form of this process, which is formalized among the Heortlings.
It is risky, not regularly done and requires huge commitment and support
from people who enter into the bond. Most of these efforts fail subsequent
to the leader's apotheosis when the cult is not able to deliver magic or
other benefits that a re sufficient for the commitment. People quit, the
process is ritually cancelled, paid for by the quitters, and the deity
becomes one of the many faceless daimones populating the God World.
Most wyters never go through this kind of process. As stated, they come from among the good gods and goddesses.
One story possibility that has not been mentioned is to make a dead leader the wyter of a new band. This is suggested in Sartar Rising as a way to get rid of the Narrator Character who acts as patron for the beginning characters.
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