Not day-in and day-out, but a regular part of the process of beating the crap out of Everybody Else, which certainly seems to be the defining Char-Un pass time (right after riding and slightly before pony breeding).
> >What's the solution? Get the chief to ritually purify himself in
>>some way, I suppose, or channel that Hate through a subcult whose
>>hero shows how to Hate the Lunars without becoming a monster.
>
>And the way is - treat them like human beings*. I don't see how an
>'Orlanth Rex Seal Of Approval' is going to change any act from
>being moraly corrupt to being Okay. Even the gods can be corrupted.
Except "treating your enemy like human beings" is not a very Heortling attitude. Hate Lunar is a pretty standard virtue/flaw for Sartari, so it can't be a priori bad. If it's your defining trait, then you may have a problem, because you are not so much a Heortling as a Lunar Hater who happens to live in Sartar.
What I meant by the cult business is not that some cults give you leave to commit atrocities, but some cults might teach the initiate to channel their Hate Lunar into Heortling-Approved directions, avoiding losing one's identity and perspective in the overwhelming emotion. Sort of the way that Humakti channel the attraction to death, Uroxi channel Hate Chaos, etc
>* Of course, I could be a sneaky Lunar agent, preaching universal
>tolerance and mutual understanding for subversive long-term
>goals. You decide.
Hmmm, maybe Mr. Hibbs needs to spend some time in the godar's tent (Urox or Maran, you pick), being tested for Lunar Sympathies....
Peter Larsen
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