Re: Blue Toad

From: Brian Curley <bkcurley_at_uMPFLdc4RSxLIJxcBwLRSbjTCCUyqrH4dbIkKg_jqo0Yf6hA4S5O8gv0t8S3R_tUgVO>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:46:01 -0500


On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 10:06 -0700, Chris Lemens wrote:
> Peter, responding to Alison:
>
> > > Blue Toad? I don't remember that way to Chaos Cleansing.
> > Drastic Prax p72-73. It's a joke subcult.
>
> I have no idea whether it was intended as a joke, but I don't like it. I've tried turning it into something serious from time to time, but I end up giving up because it seems out of place in Praxian mythology. Hence the strong caveat about whether you permit the taint of chaos to be removed in your Glorantha. It and the Cleansed One cult are the only two instances I recall of cults that remove the taint of chaos. Neither of them struck me as sound. Why, exactly, does a sub-cult of a river cult in Prax have the amazing ability to remove the taint of chaos? Seems unlikely, despite being published. Surely, if it is even possible, removing the taint of chaos is a huge quest, perhaps requiring you to travel back to the green age or golden age, before chaos entered the world. (And failure on the quest probably means that you arrivwe in the Storm Age at the same time as chaos arrived -- and you're to blame!) Anyway, that's my take on it. My Glorantha varies.

Well, as I remember it, it wasn't just the Zola Fel cult involved, there was that little bit about "the magic of the Three Bean Circus" and who knows what that entails. Also, it only worked because the Cleansed One sincerely desired to change. Most chaos creatures probably would not, considering how they generally get that way.

And personally, I've always thought it was cool that a minor (regional) deity like Zola Fel had such a highly desirable power. But then again I like the idea of redemption of evil and journeying half way across the world to find a little known river god who has the secret to curing the uncurable cancer.

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