Anything not Praxian is bad NOT because Waha has spoken, but because it was already bad. Fantastically bad, given the experiences in the Chaos Age.
Waha does not provide moralistic framework but a path for survival in the Wastes. The Wastes were so unbelievable horrific in the Grey Age that anything not following Waha was either (1) dead, or (2) Chaos, or (3) both. If you followed Waha's path, you'd survive and not end up devoured by the horrific things that haunt the Waste. Your only other option was to go mad and follow the Storm Bull; in that case, the Storm Bull made sure you got to keep fighting Chaos until the end.
> > The default position is that when you are dead you go to the Underworld, which is a bad place UNLESS you are under the protection of some god (if the god is really powerful he might even be able to get you out of there!), or your descendents keep giving you food and stuff, or you know some cool secret that lets you leave the Underworld for some better place.
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> God Learner construct. :)
Nope. Straight out of Belintar's mouth.
> The God Learners confused their own notions of the afterlife with their understanding of Gloranthan cosmology. We should not make a similar mistake, of importing some specifically mediterranean cosmological notions of Heaven and Hell into Glorantha.
Which you have just done as far as I can see. FWIW, when I wrote the Underworld material in Sartar with Greg (which is canon, btw) the main influences were definitely not Dante (although I did reread Inferno) but Ishtar's descent into Hell, Odysseus and Aenaeid's treks in Hades, and the Cinvat Bridge which perjurers cannot cross.
Jeff
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