>I always found it a bit odd that Barntar was completely separate from
>Orlanth. Same with Asrelia/Ty Kora Kek.
>
> Mind you, I never had much of a problem with it, but given how Orlanth
>seems to have a ginormous number of subcults for a fairly small population,
>including ones that overlap such ostensibly separate gods as Issaries,
>Heler, Rigsdal, and others (IIRC) - it's always a bit surprising to find
>one that he doesn't overlap.
You're expecting consistancy among Orlanthi? I expect it's a case of "We are all Orlanthi, so specialisms must be aspects of Orlanth".
> So I wouldn't be TOO surprised to find a Barntar subcult of Orlanth
>somewhere. It seems (at least in Sartar/Traditional Heortland) that
>Orlanth expanded to the point where he was almost all-encompassing of
>all male roles everywhere.
It exists, it's just called Orlanthcarl.
I think this sort of adoption of other gods as subcults by a mainstream diety is pretty common. There was discussion earlier about how Odayla has several subcults in Sylila. I can imagine Orlanth Thunderous being a subcult of Odalya there.
> Is that true further north, in the Alakoring regions? I'd say no. Or,
>if it was post-dragonkill, I'd say it has slowly drifted off as Orlanth
>lost to the Red Goddess. There, many of these overlapped subcults simply
>don't exist as Orlanth subcults anymore (or in any significant numbers).
Agreed. Tarsh in Flames describes how an Orlanthi society without Orlanth works. The Orlanthi subcults are separate cults or subcults of other gods.
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/
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