From: Carl Fink (carlf@panix.com)
Date: Fri 19 Jul 1996 - 02:47:48 EEST
Peter Metcalfe <P.Metcalfe@student.canterbury.ac.nz>:
>
>The chief problem I have here is that I don't know of any RW social
>system which has a closed nobility which was defined by exclusive
>worship of a ruling god and the masses worshipping a cluster of gods
>who are subject to the ruling god.
So what? Glorantha is NOT the "real world".
>To say that Yelm is the ruling god via magic or because all the
>Other Gods acknowlege Yelm is missing the point (not that you have
>made this argument). The Nobles must have some *backup* to enforce
>their will in case of a social crisis.
Yes, and it's MAGICAL backup. People who try to make someone else the
ruling god fail for MYTHIC reasons, not political ones.
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