> >Why would the Ralians (note well, that I referring
> >to all Ralians and not just the highlanders) adopt the Orlanthi
> >_pantheon_ in its entirety? The Talastari were Orlanthi since
> >the Storm Age and so had good reason for adopting the Heortling
> >rites but that's not true for over half the Ralians.
>
>At the Dawn, the Talastari could not be described as "Orlanthi"
>until after they met with the Theyalan missionaries.
If you are using Orlanthi as meaning the regular worship of Orlanth then neither were the Heortlings during the Great Darkness. The fact remains that the Talastings had Orlanthi customs which were recognizably Orlanthi and which were instrumental in their embrace of the missionary wisdom. Contrast this with the Ralians, most of whom didn't have such customs and they are supposed to have dropped everything and worshipped Orlanth?
--Peter Metcalfe
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