Dialogue[]
| “ | Reflected in the dying sky you see Uralda the Cow Goddess plummet into the hungry maw of the Chaos goddess, Krarsht. This blow leaves your folk too shattered too weep. Without cattle, you are doomed, people are doomed, and the world of Glorantha is doomed.
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— Six Ages 2: Lights Going Out | ||
Consequences[]
The immediate consequences are:
- Clan mood will drop.
- Obviously, you will no longer be able to sacrifice to Uralda after this. You will also not be able to build, enlarge or repair a shrine/temple to her.
- Your cows will slowly start to die off. This can be slowed down or even completely counteracted with magic or certain actions, for example putting clan magic into Pastures during Sacred Time, trading for cows, raiding, ventures, etc. Also, provided he is still alive, Voriof's Lamb Blessing can help by producing more sheep to make up for the lost cows.
If you successfully call on Uralda for one last cow blessing, she will ensure that the cows in Berenstead and the rest of the valley survives a while longer, effectively postponing their die-off for at least several years. Mood may improve. After these several years, however, you will receive the following message:
| “ | The blessing Uralda Cow Mother gave us when she died has ebbed out. Our herds will dwindle from now on. Someone alive today will be the last <Player Clan>s to see a living cow. | ” |
— Six Ages 2: Lights Going Out | ||
After this, the cows will slowly die off, as it would have without Uralda's blessing. If the call fails, one of your Uralda devotees will die as invisible teeth devour her flesh (if none of your nobles qualify, it will be a generic commoner), and if you have a shrine or temple to the cow goddess, it will be destroyed.
Advice[]
- "We'll muddle along." - Venef
- "If clans keep no cows, no one in the valley will know who to respect and who to scorn." - Rodene/Diplomat
- "Without cows all will be poor." - Issaries devotee
- "A rite could make the difference between doom and survival, but at potentiall devestating risk." - Magician
- "Yes, a rite will do great harm if it fails. But would we sooner live without cows?"
- "Cows will not die off immediately. But every year fewer of them will be born, until finally none are."
- "Krarsht is not only the goddess of hunger, but of distrust and social corruption."
- "There are now more dead gods than living ones."
- "We must all pretend this didn't happen. Because it didn't."