[Glorantha] Re: Recalling Orlanth from exile?

[Roderick and Ellen Robertson]

> The group also seemed to think that it didn't take any
> legal process or the like to get him back, there was
> just a time limit on his exile.

Orlanth was obviously banished, not outlawed (for the distinction, see TR
44). Banishment is for a specified period of time, and when it's over, it's
over. You have your old status back.

As far as Vingkot "summoning him back", I figure that's less of a magical
summoning as it is Orlanth was out there enjoying himself so much he really
didn't want to come back - until Vingkot told him how bad it was without him
and invoked that "make it better" spirit of Orlanth.

> Someone also asked:
> "While answering this, could someone also say what Orlanth was
> supposedly doing while outlawed?  Which subcults would have their major
> myths from this period?"
>
> So while I don't know what Orlanth was up to (sulking in a bar?), Ernalda
> was doing a lot!

I figure he was out in his Adventurous aspect acting like a kid again (can a
god have a mid-life crisis?). After all, he's free of responsibility, free
of a wife, no ties to keep him down, able to blow all over the world at a
whim. No wonder he has to be summoned back!

RR
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