I looked at the incomplete Elmal write up (
http://www.glorantha.com/hw/
cultlong_elmal.html), and realised there was no way I would be able to
produce even a half decent attempt at a write up by the deadline(*), but
I do have a couple of questions arising from what was there. Since the
competition forbids changing what Greg has written, I think I can ask
them now, as they are general background questions rather than rulesy
types (another reason for asking them here)
- Elmal left the fire tribe with a Justice stick, ("containing the last
particle of decency of the fire tribe"). Nothing subsequently in the
myth points to any role connected with Justice for Elmal, so what (if
anything) is the significance of the stick?
- Elmal is known to the Storm Tribe as the Loyal Thane, because he
stuck by Orlanth, and ruled his stead in his absence, handing it back
when he returned from the Underworld. How is he known to the Fire
Tribe, who he refused to fight for at the start of the Gods War, then
refused to defend himself when they attacked him, going to join their
brutal foes, the Storm tribe? Presumably this is why the Solar peoples
have (tried to) convert Elmal to Yelamalio, a Solar God who better meets
their ideals?
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