Maybe this has been raised already (I've been on vacation), but, as I recall, the standard Heortling initiation a) makes you a provisional adult in Heortling society, b) inducts you into the Storm Tribe as a communal worshipper, and c) maybe makes sure that you aren't chaos or a meldek or something else unspeakable. The dedicated CA worshipper would initiate to that goddess two or more years after the "standard" initiation in a rite that, as you point out, should require no killing at all (although it probably does require you you abandon violence in some suitably mythic struggle against the standard Heortling "Violence Is Always an Option" (perhaps Heort or Orlanth had a Son who became a healer and laid down the path for renouncing violence rather than never being violent in the first place)). I suppose a child called by CA with a big CA destiny might, as others have pointed out, Find Another Way in their initiation, but that would surely be the stuff of heroes, not a common occurrence.
Peter Larsen
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