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On 9 Mar 2005 at 19:00, bethexton_at_... wrote:
> BUT!
> When I think to the clan questionnaires, the "Making of the Storm
> Tribe" myth in KoDP and various other places, it seems clear to me
> that many of the gods that joined the storm tribe were leaders of
> people. That is, there was the "marks on barks" clan following
> Lankor My, there was the "fight anything" clan following Vadrus, and
> so on. These all became part of the Storm Tribe before the
> Vingkotling age.
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> Presumably that means that Orlanth was a greater leader, and I don't
> think any of the other storm tribe gods should have his "king"
> magic. But it seems that lost in distant myth there could well
> be "chief" level sub-cults for many of the Storm Tribe gods. The
> reasons that they are not currently worshipped are:
> - These gods mostly gave up their leadership functions during the
> Storm Age
> - There were about 2000 Heortlings who survived the darkness. Of
> COURSE they forgot more than they remembered. The only god with much
> of a leadership function who was around in Kerofinnela during the
> darkness was Elmal, and his leadership sub-cult survived. (I bet
> there is an Odaylan leadership sub-cult up in Sylila though).
> - Of course some of the gods were never good leaders, and may never
> had had this function even if they did lead people (I suspect Yinkin
> would be like this)
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> So I agree with Light Castle, by interpreting "work" to mean
> explorative hero questing, and "any" to mean "Orlanthi all" or "most."
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> Which is to say that in most cases it is probably harder to get their
> leadership magic than it would be lead without it!
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> --Bryan
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