As mentioned, in Storm Tribe (iirc that book was written for Hero Wars--HQ rev0 more or less, so potentially superseded since then), Voriof is a sub-cult of Heler. Under his water rune he'd have cloud and rain type abilities more than those dealing with water lying around on the ground.
But I wonder, is he specifically focused on Voriof, or on being a shepherd? Again harkening back to the Hero Wars books Thunder Rebels and Storm Tribe, even where there are specialist gods, most Heortlings in a profession still worship Orlanth, because Orlanth did pretty much everything....including herding. In Thunder Rebels there was an Orlanth Allfather subcult associated with herding in general (not just sheep). Orlanth allfather, in HQ2 terms, would be people whose initiation was based on the mastery rune, so presumably he would have storme, MASTERY, and some variant on beast.
For that matter, I seem to recall that there are herding alynx, which must mean some herding Yinkini....but they would be the ones who give shepherds a bad name for leaving their herds while they wander off to visit lonely women on the neighbouring tula.
And a final note, Jeff Kyer had a Voriof based heroquest submitted for one of the HQ1 scenario books, that was never published. I'm not quite sure what the state of ownership of it is now, and if it is allowed to share it publicly. (I remember the essence of it from conversations with Jeff, but I don't have a final copy and I wouldn't want to cross any ownership lines)
Regards;
--Bryan
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> OK then, Shepherd it is. His runes must include BEAST and probably WATER. He is in fact one of the sacred providers, and people eat mutton much more often than they do beef. He can use anything in a sheep : flesh, milk, wool, bones, sinews. He can control rams, help ewes deliver lambs, perhaps run as a sheep as a part of his magics. He can probably track and knows the tula very well. He has alynx to help him. He knows some fighting to protect his herd. He might even be quite well-off with a large herd of sheep, but his Flaw is easy : "overlooked by others" or simply "cottar".
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> Or, you could make him a cattle herder. Much more socially prestigious ; depends if he's into sheep or into herding.
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> De: "Andrew Larsen" <aelarsen_at_...>
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> Envoyé: Jeudi 6 Septembre 2012 14:27:07
> Objet: Re: Voriof Brings the Clouds
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> I'm nudging him in that direction, but he's really focused on the shepherd part.
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> Andrew E. Larsen
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> On Sep 6, 2012, at 2:11 AM, hcarteau_at_... wrote:
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> > Voriof is the Shepherd boy, a God for uninitiated boys the same Voria, his sister, is for uninitiated girls. Still, some orlanthi become sheepherds and worship him all their adult life. It's not a very prestigious cults, in fact it's one of the humblest. Still, Voriof is part of HELER, the Major Water/Rain/Clouds God. Heler is also the Ram. Doesn't your player prefer to play that?
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> > Envoyé: Jeudi 6 Septembre 2012 05:57:52
> > Objet: Re: Voriof Brings the Clouds
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> > No, not published yet. I keep meaning to finish it up.
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> > Neil
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> > On Sep 5, 2012, at 8:32 PM, Andrew Larsen < aelarsen_at_... > wrote:
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> > > One of my players has asked about playing a Voriof cultist, which I'm game for, but there's little published info on Voriof. I notice that there was an intro scenario, Voriof Brings the Clouds, run at Eternal Con a few years ago. Has that been published online anywhere?
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