From: Bryan J. Maloney (jacobus@sonata.cc.purdue.edu)
Date: Sat 26 Feb 1994 - 23:55:39 EET
A Shaman fights off the Bad Man. A knight holds vigil and possibly
accepts a quest, read Pendragon for details. A Wind Lord has to prove
mastery of a couple of cult skills before examiners, but this is hardly
better than a journeyman proving his skill before a guild. Does this make
master crafters the equivalent of a Rune Lord or priest?
Do secret societies (like the Bullocks) parallel cults?
Actually, yes, it does. This is EXACTLY how a craft-god's cult would
recognize "rune" status. Remember, Glorantha is not hack-n-slay-munchkin
world. MOST of the religions and MOST of the world does NOT exist for
the convenience and furtherance of martial goals. There are SHITLOADS more
plain folk than adventurer scum. RQ:AiG needs to CONSTANTLY remind people
of this--adventurers are WIERDOS. They are sickos who can't fit into
regular society--at least those who consider themselves to be professional
"adventurers" are. Now, there are also those who are forced into adventure,
and they aren't sick, but they usually don't revel in battle and try to
rack up as much combat magic as they can, either.
Now, as to the whole "rune affinity" thing--it plain stinks to me. Why?
The proponent's ideas are valid if and only if the "Runes" of Dragon Pass
are 100% universal and valid everywhere. This is, of coures, not true.
The Godlearners have been crushed, and One True Worldism is a discredited
doctrine.
I sometimes think that Pameltelans may not even HAVE "Runes" as they are
It's kind of like insisting that Christ is "really" Krsna (Krishna) because
I put the idea that ther is some over-arching set of universal "runes" for
known in central Genertela. It would make MUCH more sense for the
Pamaltelans (being African homologues) to have "masks", "dances", etc.
Now, some folks could claim that one could construct some sort of
"correspondence" between the Pamaltelan Power Masks and the "true" Runic
meaning. This is about as valid as the Romans insisting that Lugh Lamfod
was "really" their god Mercury, that the Dadghda was "really" their god
Jupiterus, etc. etc. etc.
of some similarities in the MODERN, ANGLICIZED spellings of their names and
some superficial similarities in some of their preachments.
all of Glorantha in the same intellectual category as the above spurious
conclusions.
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