[Glorantha] Re: Glorantha Digest, Vol 12, Issue 71

[Roderick and Ellen Robertson]

> >An extremely good and practical question/answer.
> >
> >Until I look at the description of a standard clan
> >worship ceremony, TR p 120, and discover that that's
> >exactly what they do. There's another description on
> >p61 that agrees.
> >
> >Why? P119 "the regular ceremonies supercharge the
> >everyday world with divine energy and make it more
> >like the Other Side". And I believe I've read
> >somewhere that repeating the rites is necessary to
> >keep the world going.
> >
> >The whole point, it seems, is not to change anything,
> >but to maintain the status quo. A bit less exciting
> >for an adventurer, but rather important.
> >
> Oh, yes, we certainly know that people do do this, and regularly, too.
> Heortlings obviously do visit the Storm Realm, for instance. But I
> didn't get the impression that that was the sort of heroquesting the
> person was asking about (or, at least, not just that sort). The 'why
> bother?' question was directed out-of-game at players, rather than at
> in-game Gloranthans, who, do, indeed, have quite a good reason. Players
> may well go and visit nodes to look at the pretty scenery, but it's not
> exactly what you'd call a typical - or exciting - heroquest scenario.

Besides the point that we really didn't have the heroplanes concept in
HeroWars, when TR was written...

A normal worship ceremony goes to the appropiate Otherworld home of the
being worshipped (Orlanth's hall, the Moon, the Waha's tent, or wherever),
but you *normally* don't leave that safe place in the Otherworld (remember,
this is a worship ceremony, not the beginning of a heroquest). If you do,
it's along well-known and safe paths, and can really be accounted part of
the God's Home.

There are doors that you can pass through that will take you to parts of the
hero Planes (Those "Exits to the Golden Age, the Greater and Lesser
Darkness" entries in cult keywords), and there are even doors that will
allow you to enter the Otherworld that the Safe place is in, but these
aren't used during a normal worship ceremony.

RR
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