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Chalana Arroy
Healer, Requirements to Belong
The first sentence appears to mean that for an Initiate the oath is less restrictive in terms of never to harm an intelligent creature” than for a Lay Member at the top of the same page (“never to harm a living creature”). Is this intentional?
Becoming an initiate doesn’t remove any of the obligations of being a lay member, unless specifically noted.
Daka Fal
Sample Ancestor Cults
Rune Spells
Do the example ancestor cults give access to all of Daka Fal’s rune spells?
Yes, they are Daka Fal with the name changed, and additional background and associations.
or do they only provide the one special spell in their description?
No.
Foundchild
Rune Magic – Beastmaster and Draw Beast
Two of Foundchild’s special rune spells, Beastmaster and Draw Beast, do not share a rune affinity with him – his runes are Death and Harmony, while both of them are Beast only. Is this intentional?
Yes. This reflects that the hunter in order to understand their prey more needs to become the hunted (like the unfortunate Actaeon). Foundchild hunters need to increase their beast over man (unlike Yinkin & Odayla hunters who’s gods are beasts). However it’s not really an issue as Man/Beast starts at 50/50.
Lanbril
Magic Chirper and Farsee
This says that Farsee is often cast on the box, yet the RBM description for Farsee only mentions the caster being affected by the spell, and it is tagged as a Ranged spell.
The range of a spirit magic spell is given in the spell description. It defines the maximum distance from the caster at which the spell’s effects can occur.
RBM, Range, page 108
So in the case of a Magic Chirper, the spell’s effects occur on the chirper.
Mastakos
Mastakos Holy Days
On page 120. it says Mastakos holy days correspond to the holy days of the dominant cult. I take it that where the shrine is in an Orlanth temple,
Shrines are found in great temples of Orlanth and Magasta.
Orlanth is dominant and where in a Magasta temple, Magasta is dominant.
If there is a great temple yes. It’s possible that there are great temples to both in a region and that they both have a Mastakos shrine. There will likely be some kind of cultural divide as to which temple a Mastakos worshipper attends.
Does this mean that in Orlanth areas, Mastakos gets a minor holy day every Windsday?
No, in these great temples, associate cults can’t receive any Rune points on minor holy days (per RQG 315).
What about a transition to an area in which neither Orlanth nor Magasta is a dominant cult, like Caladraland?
Caladraland has no major Magasta worship see Mythology 152.
Does Mastakos take the holy days of Caladra & Orelion or Lodril instead?
No in this case it would be Orlanth.
The only area with any crossover would be the humans in the Right Arm Islands where Magasta has 2% of worshippers and Orlanth 10%. IIRC Magasta only has minor temples here, so again Mastakos would be worshiped in an Orlanth great temple.
An underwater offshore Merfolk great temple to Magasta would have a Mastakos shrine in it. It’s worth noting that Magasta is too terrible to be worshiped by many land-dwellers, although a few sea-going peoples maintain minor temples to him.
Odayla
What are the Bearwalker (Rune Lord) Benefits?
Always use the Rune Lords section (RQG 278 or Mythology 146) unless contradicted or changed by the cult write up. The same applies for other cult ranks.
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