[Glorantha] Orlanthi metaphysics

[Peter Metcalfe]

Stephen Tempest

>Going by Storm Tribe p87, an Orlanthi soul first goes to the Court of
>Silence - this journey takes a week.  But where is the Court of
>Silence - the Underworld?

Yes.

>As part of this process, most people lose their individuality and
>become an undifferentiated Ancestor.  (Per RQ, they lost 1/7 of their
>individual personality for each day in the underworld, as I recall.)

That isn't personality being lost but body corruption.

>After judgement, the soul then goes to Storm Home to dwell alongside
>the Gods (until eventual reincarnation, in most cases).

The Court of Silence makes a decision on where you go with the
usual places being described in KoS p68-69.

>Does this mean that
>any non-theistic parts of the worshipper's personality are lost or
>stripped away in order to allow them to enter the Godplane?

Orlanthi have souls with only a few having spirits.  The non-theistic
parts are their mortal bodies.

>This, of
>course, raises the awkward question of Kolatings who have spirits, not
>souls - presumably they do *not* go to the same Storm Home,

They go to Kolat's place in the Spirit World.

>Why is the Underworld normally thought of as 'the place of the dead'
>if most souls go to the Godplane instead?

Because Death was found in the Underworld and Humakt rules there.

--Peter Metcalfe