> 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?
This seems to be a well-founded nomad belief, also finding its expression in Waha digging the Good Canal, redirecting the Sounders River (is that a spelling error for Founders' River?) to wash away the squashed remains of Wakboth. To the Beast Riders, all sources of water are sacred (note that all the "altars of Prax" are oases).
So, to Praxians there are two ways to get rid of Chaos - water or wildfire. If you can conceive a way to burn away the Chaos taint (and survive the experience), there might be another way.
Note that any ritual involving complete submergence is an Underworld/Death experience to Beast Riders.
> Seems unlikely, despite being published.
Removing the taint and getting away cheaply: agreed. Even the watery methods should cause great etched scars etc. to show the ordeal.
> 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.
Why would those innocents know how to remove Chaos? It should be impossible to restore innocence (except through death/rebirth, and loss of identity).
> (And failure on the quest probably means that you arrive in the
> Storm Age at the same time as chaos arrived -- and you're to blame!)
Nicely nasty. IMO _to succeed_ you have to go there, and shoulder the blame. Then start to get rid of it.
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