Please disregard; in retrospect, the answer is an obvious "yes" without much else to say. I think my confusion is more a matter of rules, so when I figure out exactly what I want to ask, I'll ask it in the appropriate list. thanks.
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> I got into Glorantha with HQ1, and the setting I fell in love with was the Trader Princes & Wenelia (and I am terribly jealous of those with awesome campaigns, but that rant is for another thread).
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> Because of these two things, I have a question about misapplied magic:
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> Was misapplied magic purely a mechanical artifact of HQ1, or was it an attempt to mechanically "model" something that an extant element of the setting? In other words, was there a previous, in-setting idea that venerating Orlanth as a saint was fundamentally inferior to making sacrifices to him as a god?
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> I realize this question skirts the edge between setting question and rules question, but I wanted to ask the setting oriented piece of it first. Also, it is strangely fitting that a question that emerges from syncretism has problems cleanly fitting into a particular list category ;)
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> Thanks
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> Nick
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