Okay, based on the previous info, I came up with this.
Fire Fox
Divine
Worship Fire Fox
Summon/Command/Bind salamander.
Spirit
Foxes Cunning: Each point increases Track by 5%.
Fiery Gaze: Inner light glows in casters eyes. If targets mp overcome, learn one secret of target per point of spell. Usable only against sentient targets.
Fireblade
Airy Horned Owl
Divine
Worship Airy Horned Owl
Summon/Command/Bind Sylph
Spirit
Owls Wisdom: Each point gives 5% in language the caster desires to understand.
Silent Wind: Same as Silence spell
Speedart
Slippery Otter
Divine
Worship Slippery Otter
Summon/Command/Bind Undine
Spirit
Otters Craftiness: Each point will cause 1 Siz freshwater fish to approach the caster and/or the casters bait.
Aqualung: Each point allows the caster to breathe water for 10 minutes. Adds 5% to swim.
Shimmer
Dark Raven
Divine
Worship Dark Raven
Summon/Command/Bind Shade
Spirit
Ravens Trickery: Each point gives target opponent a darkness penalty of -15% if mp overcome.
Night Eyes: each point reduces darkness penalty of caster by 15%.
Spirit Screen
Earth Reindeer
Divine
Worship Earth Reindeer
Summon/Command/Bind Gnome
Spirit
Reindeers Strength: Same as Strength spell
Stone Loins: Same as Endurance spell
Heal
Shamans can also learn the following Divine magics:
Divine
Kill'em 1 pt.(castable only upon a Thunderstone shard) Next sling attack is 95% to hit and does max damage.
See Leylines (free like Second Sight)
Tap Leylines: 3 pt spell. One use only. Allows the Shaman to tap into the elemental forces of the leylines to do one of two things:
1-Move directly to any Henge known to the shaman.
2-Double the shamans mps when Commanding elementals.
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> Maybe Lunar sources from Hero Wars say something about the shamanic religion of Eol-- after all it is the home of the sling-using mercenaries on the fringes of the Imperial Army.
> There were some references to Eol (including professions) in Genertela Crucible of the Hero Wars, but if my haphazard memory serves me correctly, I don't think this book said much about their religion (other than that it was shamanic and 'different').
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> I would then try and reverse-engineer something from these sources into whatever system of mechanics you use, adding some twists of your own to the mix (including the degree of Lunarisation, but how much? A little or a lot?)
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> You might also get some ideas about a shamanic culture with some Lunar influences from Griffin Mountain, (as one of the three citadels in Balazar had started to take on some Lunar influences), though as Eol is different from Balazar, this is probably something to get ideas from piecemeal rather than something to clone. Griffin Mountain is also very old, and harks back to the (less well-developed) RQII mechanics on shamanism
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> If you have access to the new Mongoose RQ rules, you might want to look at that system's outline rules for nature spirits, and think up some local ones that fit the character's concept and background too. It wouldn't take that much work to use these ideas in RQ III mechanics.
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> Another old RQ source that might give you some inspiration would be the treatment of spirit cults in Prax (try the unofficial but very interesting Book of Drastic Resolutions on Prax, and/or Tales of the Reaching Moon 14 and 15). Give the shamans in Eol some of the same spells, but from different spirit cults and with different associated myths.
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> You can do the same with Hero Wars sources on other shamanic cultures
> (e.g. Blood over Gold, Sons of Kargzant) too, but as well as writing new local myths for them (and the myths are the more interesting bit), you will need to work on adapting these spirits into RQ III mechanics.
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> I for one would be fascinated by what you come up with.
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> Richard Hayes
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> --- On Mon, 29/3/10, julianlord <julian.lord_at_...> wrote:
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> From: julianlord <julian.lord_at_...>
> Subject: Re: Trying to pin down Eolian shamans
> To: WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, 29 March, 2010, 11:17
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> pentallion :
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> > My friend wants to play a RQ III shaman and I'm wondering what kind of shamans emanate from Eol? I would think they specialize in elemental magics of every kind, but I'm not sure how to define them. The only source of shamanism from RQ III I have is Gods of Glorantha and that pretty much limits them to Ancestor Worship or Horned Man. I'm thinking probably Horned Man with emphasis on a Spirit Cult that focuses on elementals instead of spirits for their divine spells?
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> > Not sure how the ley lines work for them either.
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> > Don't even know if this is a good place to dredge up RQ III type questions but there really isn't a better place that I can think of.
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> You would need to do a lot of the work for this by yourselves, although Peter's and other people's background information will hopefully be useful.
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> In RQ3 I would have tended to retain the rules and other structures described in the Horned Man write up, but to replace the details with some local and other thematic content.
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> There is very little published information about Eol, and the only specific Eol shaman cult I know of to have been described with any detail at all are the Third Eye Blue people (unless someone can correct me).
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> It might be possible to extrapolate from there that the practises of shamanism in Eol are those of some sorts of Inner Senses allowing participation into otherworld magics. Having a great big eye tattooed onto your forehead may not be universal LOL ; but it could be seen as suggesting that strikingly prominent tattoos feature more strongly in their shamanism than elsewhere and that their magic involves some sort of magical senses.
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> Personally, I would probably go with describing Eol shamanism as being of the more internal and meditative and passive varieties, in that the senses are mostly passive elements of our beings, and that it seeks to use the spirits to foster the improvement of people's personal abilities and powers and possessions (one's own and those of others) rather than the flashier and more outwardly active Praxian methods.
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> Nurturing, Growth, and Empowerment then, and the corollary of this is that "evil" magicians in Eol would use the more destructive, active, and directly outward methods of magic.
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> I'm not at all sure what sort of male/female differences I would want, but they would be characterised by these same themes, and would bear in mind that men control more of the active and women more of the passive principles.
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> The suggestions of an elemental theme are excellent, and we also know that the Third Eye Blue have metal magic at their disposal. Perhaps the shamans of Eol view the world as being made of various different kinds of materials, so that there are shamans of fire, earth, metal, wood, flesh, weaponry, clothing, and other such basic elements of material wealth ? I say wealth, because a spirit is something that you either belong or belong to.
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> So, we would then have this theme of Inner Senses, as well as this theme of enhancing one's material possessions -- which strikes me as a good male/female distinction right there.
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> So the male shamanic traditions would concentrate then on empowering possessions and tools, and focus on Enchantment ; and the female ones more on growth and nurturing and the passive empowerment of body and spirit.
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> Of course, that would not be an absolute split, and each pathway would borrow from the other.
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> Looking at your idea of using elemental spirits, let's say fire as an example, I would see a typical fire shaman more concerned with say empowering people's hearth fires, or enchanting flaming arrows and swords and other weaponry, and generally imbuing things with fiery properties and magics rather than as blasting everything in sight with fireballs -- but that there are "evil" shamans that like to do just that, and no reason why some PC might not have such unusual magics at his disposal without necessarily being Evil LOL.
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> Does that sound at all helpful to what you have been contemplating for your game ?
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> The above is of course completely made up off the top of my head, and I would be grateful to learn any existing information that contradicted it, and you should just take it as suggestions :)
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