> >Secondly the number of lunar initiates in the provincial population
> >is small. 5% is my impression (as opposed to 2% in the Heartlands).
> >Initiates are generally wealthy layabouts, political agitators, jaded
> >hedonists, bootlicking toadies etc. rather than being your average
> >hard-working citizen struggling in through day-job (although there
> >are some lunars in the last category).
>If that's right it opens a whole new reason for hating Lunar converts -
>they are a bunch of slackers who don't try hard enough to need the edge
>given by a focused deity.
They are no more slackers than your average landed gentry (I'm not saying your parallel is wrong, I'm just placing it within a social context).
>In somewhere like Prax I'd count it as a
>reason for exiling someone in its own right. It also seems to rather
>focus the missionary efforts on such slackers.
But we weren't talking about Prax, we were talking about the relationship between the average provincial citizen (who live in places like Tarsh) and the lunars. Secondly the missionaries do not set out to convert "slackers" but anybody who listens to their message. Being recognized by the Examiners as a Lunar confers a privileged position within the Empire (the Select*) of which a benefit can be said to live the life of a slacker.
>It's a view point I hadn't thought of before. I thought the Lunars
>wanted everyone to join.
They do.
> >Ernalda isn't banned.
>Though recent discussions seem to imply that the Chaining of Orlanth in
>Dragon Pass after Whitewall also wrecks Ernaldan magic there.
That's correct. This does not however alter the fact that Ernaldan worship is not banned.
*an old draft of the Glorantha: Intro had the class of lunar citizens as the Sevenths.
--Peter Metcalfe
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