yes and no
King says Yes (he gets a piece of all of them)
Church says no (immoral, not mentioned in the Sharp AB)
Always remember that in Seshnela there are two might powers working in
conjunction to get their own way
the rigid spiritual church is crushing dissent and outsider powers to
monopolize the energy of prayer
the rigid mundane government is crushing dissent and outside influences to
to monopolize the energy of material wealth
these are hard to resist, and will succeed (unless your campaign does
otherwise!!)
Always there exists in Glorantha the polar attractions of material success and spiritual compliance (both differently measured in different cultures)
When the two Great Powers, rigid and strong, have completed their
consumption of rebels and dissenters and trouble makers and outlaws
things like differences over ransoms
and selling spiritual "pardons"
and the most minor pieces of land that their tax system imagines possible
(collectively anyway; you know, when they take the "two thousand offenses"
to the King's High Court)
these petty annoyances
are spark and fuel
and two hot sticks rubbing together
--
Greg Stafford
Game Designer
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