Carmanian Hum'akt from Svechin_at_... on 2003-11-21 (HeroQuest RPG)

From: Svechin_at_...
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:24:07 EST

> >>  Based on the very brief mention in ILH, the Carmanian Hum'akt is


>  >not

>  >>  so nice - the Honour Affinity is replaced with Battle making a very

>  >>  focussed warrior-death God.  Hum'akt is "worshipped by the outsider

>  >>  and the avenger".

>  >

>  >Battle rather than Truth/Honour? Interesting.

>  >

> >Is there a write-up of this somewhere? Me not having read much
> >Carmanian stuff, I'd have missed it.
>
> There seems to be some stuff on the web - Nick Brooke's site is my
> first stop for things Carmanian. But really I'm just going on the
> very little in the Carmanian Homleand section of ILH-1.

There will be a writeup of the cult in depth in the ILH4 book (Carmanian and Pelanda), which is in the works, after the DHan book (ILH 3). We have a writeup but it will need tweaking as its a couple of years old now and a bit out of date and hasn't the filled out sub cults.

Effectively the Carmanian Humakt is a killer, a harsh god of death and war, executions and oaths. Not to be crossed lightly and with more of a hard edge than the typical Heortling cultist. Many Hazars follow him, especially in Spol where death is revered and the Knight Killers of Hum'akt are rightly feared.

Jane mentioned Solar Humakti, in the DHan pantheon there is no Solar Humakt. Check out the DH "What the Buseri told me" piece in Visions on the Issaries website for their main war gods. Death for the Yelmies is Bijiif, a part of Yelm and a rather less than respectable part at that. Not a warrior, except in the Shargashi sub pantheon. There is no honour or glory in death in Dara Happa, it just plain sucks as far as they are concerned...

Martin Laurie