>Starting with the Dragons and Gods.
>I read with interest that the Dragons made the gods of Kralorela to teach
>the people how to live.
>Does everyone worship gods?
No.
>Or is it just peasants?
Ordinary people. Deciding to follow the Draconic Path is to undertake a great social responsibility.
>By sacrifice?
Not all of them. Some ordinary Kralori are animists, others are sorcerous and a few are mystics.
>It seems
>from reading the section on Religion in Kralorela (GIttHW boxed text p188 -
>192) and some worship dragons (? veneration or is it mysticism?). How is
>this regulated? I find it all very confusing...
Why should it be regulated?
>Does everyone worship the Emperor?
Yes. The Imperial Adorations mentioned on the Glorantha: Intro p183.
>Directly by sacrifice?
No. The Emperor is a Dragon, not a God.
>Are some of the Dragons (eg Vayobi, the Dragon of War) worshipped by
>sacrifice?
No.
>I really don't get the 'dragons' bit (page 183, para 5 GIttHW):
>"The exarch is responsible for constituting a portion of his constituents'
>Imperial Adorations into dragon"
An "a" should be before dragon. He turns some of the worship that the Kralori give to their emperor into a dragon.
>Is this some sort of veneration?
No in the sense of the HW terminology.
>This [Constituted] 'dragon' referred to, is it a bit like a big (Kraloreli
>style) 'wyter' or is it referring in actuality to the Exarch himself?
It's a Kralori-style wyter (although much bigger than Orlanthi ones). Exarchs are dragons in their own right.
>The circle of Infinite Power places these Constituted dragons into the
>Imperial Dragon.
>Is the Imperial Dragon the actual Emperor,
Yes.
>Does this mean that annually the Exarches are weakened?
No.
>Is this to prevent them hoarding power (like that
>fellow who rules Ignorance) and feudin'?
It's to prevent them arguing with each other about who does what.
--Peter Metcalfe
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