[Glorantha] Re: Pol Joni musings

[Joerg Baumgartner]

> Peter Metcalfe:

>> The problem is that the Pol Joni worship Orlanth and herd
>> cattle when the Pure Horse tribe is notorious for refusing
>> to deviate from the ways of the forefathers even to the
>> extent of herding cattle.

The Pol Joni are a conglomerate of impossibilities - including Praxian
exiles abandoning their tribal steeds for horses, Grazer dissidents who
gave up their past when that threatened to destroy them, Sartarites taking
on a life as nomads. What the Black Net could have provided is access to
some of the ancestral Pure Horse folk magics.


Simon Phipp
>   Also, there already existed a way of getting to the Pure Horse Tradition
> via Yarandros' cult (which I think stole some of the Grazers' powers) so
> the Orlanthi didn't need to take on foreign and alien ways.

That wouldn't have helped them to have a go at Jaldon in his own turf,
though.

Them ending up as followers of Jaldon in the Dragon Pass boardgame is a
strange change, though... what did Sartar do to them?


>   Yes, the Black Net wasn't an attempt to recreate the (Solar) Pure Horse
> Tribe, more of an attempt to make Derik's new horse clans more
> acceptable to Prax. After all, the Pure Horse Tribe was in Prax for an
> awful long time and it would have made sense to try an emulate that in
> some way.

>   But, I don't think they took any of the Grazers'/Pure Horse Tribe's core
> beliefs/traditions. The Black Net was merely an attempt to use an
> existing power to draw disparate horsemen together and give them some
> kind of authenticity.

Or simply give them a guardian to counter the ancestor/founder/protectress
magics of the Praxians. The majority of the Pol Joni follow the Orlanth
pantheon. IMO several occupational cults could need the adoption of heroes
from the Black Net to work properly in the new environment.