>and a couple of spirits seem to
>have made it. (Subere, who I think is a Great Spirit, and Daka Fal.)
>
>
Subere was described as theist when that list was compiled for RQ (she's
animist in UW: Uz, though). The animist ones are supposed to be what
were then called the 'Form runes':
Beast - Hykim (i.e. the beast-worshipping Hsunchen tradition)
Plant - Flamal (an elven shamanic tradition) - although Aldrya is
included in the Jonstown list, instead
Man - Daka Fal (i.e. ancestor-worship)
Spirit - Horned Man (i.e. non-aligned shamanism)
Chaos - Primal Chaos (chaotic animism, or worship of Chaos for its own
sake) - replaced here by Wakboth
(Dragonewt is a form rune too, but too generally weird to fit on this
scheme)
And, Mostal, of course, is sorcerous/wizardly magic, albeit rather different in detail from the Malkioni sort.
>This completely changes the view of Glorantha I had. I didn't realize there were some
>"real" gods and others who didn't own runes and so weren't fundamental to the cosmos.
>
>
It's a theory that exists within Glorantha. Its not necessarily *true*,
and I don't think it was intended to be taken as gospel truth even then.
It would seem odd, for instance, if Orlanth is really that much more
important than, say, the great god of the Fonritian pantheon. Or than
Pamalt, for that matter. The fact that, in the Jonstown list, we have
Aldrya instead of Flamal, that there's no god representing the Motion
rune (one could hardly claim Mastakos is essential to the running of the
universe), Kyger Litor instead of Subere, and so forth, is, IMO, another
reason to doubt that its Absolute Truth.
Although, as the Hero Wars progress, you will doubtless get the chance to *prove* its the absolute truth, should you so desire :)
-- Trotsky Gamer and Skeptic ------------------------------------------------------ Trotsky's RPG website: http://www.ttrotsky.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
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