The main acts that have been mentioned are rape, kinstrife and cannibalism.
Ragnaglar raped Thed and Thed demanded justice from Orlanth, becoming the goddess of rape. Does
the act of rape strengthen Thed or Ragnaglar? What about Gagarth, Vadrus or even Orlanth? These
carried off goddesses in God Time and raped them, so are they strengthened by the act? What about
other deities outside the Orlanth pantheon? Are they strengthened by the act or do Orlanthi
rapists only strengthen Ragnaglar? Was Ragnaglar's rape of Thed a chaotic act or was it an act
that weakened the fabric of the cosmos, thus allowing Chaos in? After all, neither Ragnaglar nor
Thed were chaotic at the time, they only became so afterwards. Ragnaglar was sent mad by the Sex
Demons in the Pit, does this mean that the Sex Demons are the instigators of rape and hence they
are strengthened? If so, where is the chaos, because the Sex Demons were probably not chaotic.
What about kinstrife? Is this intrinsically chaotic? Orlanth practised kinstrife before he
realised it was bad. He fought a number of his kin, including Storm Bull, Gagarth and Daga. DOes
this make him chaotic? Does performing the Orlanth Defeats Gagarth HeroQuest strengthen the owner
of Kinstrife and increase the strength of chaos? This would imply that re-enacting an Orlanth
Quest strengthens Chaos.
I can follow the idea of performing an act strengthens the deity who first performed that act, or
the deity who "owns" the act, that makes sense in that performing the act causes some resonance in
the God Plane, reinforcing the original path. However, I am having trouble connecting this to the
idea that these acts are intrinsically chaotic.
Simon
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