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Sartar & Orlanth Rex cult

Posted on April 6, 2019

Sartar is worshiped in Sartar as part of the Orlanth Rex cult. His priests are Orlanth Rex members descended from Sartar himself. As a Founder God he gets one additional spell – a variant of City Harmony that works in the cities and royal roads of the kingdom.

The key elements in the Sartar cult (which actually has a write-up but didn’t make the G&G cut) are:

LAY MEMBERSHIP

Anyone in Sartar can join the cult of Sartar, even if they also worship other gods. Lay members form the famed City Militia of Sartar. 

INITIATE MEMBERSHIP REQUIREMENTS TO JOIN

Initiates must be members of a Sartarite tribe. Typically one must be born or marry into a tribe, but rituals of adoption exist. Initiates are citizens of Sartar’s cities and entitled to participate in the assemblies of governance and justice. Only Initiates can own land in Boldhome or the other cities. Initiates may only worship gods friendly or associated with Orlanth. Sartar is normally worshiped in conjunction with Orlanth Rex.

REQUIREMENTS TO BELONG

Initiates need devote only 5% of their time and 1% of their income to the god.

RUNE SPELLS

Sartar provides the special Rune spell City Harmony. This spell works in any of Sartar’s cities and along the Royal Roads.

RUNE PRIEST

Sartar’s Priests must be members of the Sartar Dynasty and initiates of Orlanth. They must join the Orlanth Rex cult as part of becoming priests. They can become priests of Orlanth Rex as well.

SUBSERVIENT CULTS

Sartar the Builder – this is magic initially given to him by the dwarfs and then stolen by his son Saronil for the good of the kingdom. Provides Support.

Geo – provides hostels and lodgings

ASSOCIATED CULTS

Orlanth Rex – Detect Honor. Note that his priests are initiates of Orlanth Rex and worship Sartar as subcult of Orlanth Rex. Within Sartar, any initiate of Orlanth Rex may automatically become an initiate of Sartar without any special sacrifice of POW. For such initiates, Sartar is treated as a special subcult of Orlanth Rex.

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The priests of Sartar need to be members of his dynasty. The initiates are the leaders of tribes, clans, councillors, etc. That’s what the section on page 21 of the Glorantha Sourcebook means. And yes, it is a local Orlanth Rex cult.

Anyone can become a Lay Member of Sartar. That’s most of the folk in the cult. But the family of Sartar tends his Flame.

Kallyr’s connections to Sartar were a little more than Argrath’s, but both were sufficient to meet the divine requirements. For the rest you will need to check out RQC.

I do not think that Sartar was Illuminated.

Note that the month and year of this post are correct, just not the date.

Jeff Richard

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