Special Note: The following description is written for use with the Harnmaster rules. 1st edition rules are marked 'HM1', while the 2nd edition rules from Harnmaster Religion are marked 'HMR'. For those of you without these rules, a guide to terminology is provided. Translation rules for RuneQuest (3rd ed.) are also available.
Equani shamans are graded into five Circles, based on Ritual ML. There is, however no structured hierarchy like that of civilised religions. Use the following table:
| HM1 | HMR | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Circle | ML | Office | RML | Office |
| 1st | 26+ | assistant | 1+ | adult |
| 2nd | 41+ | 21+ | assistant | |
| 3rd | 61+ | shaman | 51+ | shaman |
| 4th | 76+ | 71+ | ||
| 5th | 86+ | 86+ | ||
Existing shamans select young men to follow in their path, based on signs such as unusual dreams or behaviour. If they show aptitude, they will eventually become shamans, but such people are rare and many of the smaller tribes lack any shamans at all. As a result, many shamans have to learn their art through self-experiment, while still acting in other ways as typical hunter/warriors.
HM1
The assistant gains the following skills:
Ritual/2, Survival/3, Herblore/2, Awareness/1, Embalming/1, Spear/1, Tracking/1
The assistant then gains three option points to be expended to improve his or her skills or open appropriate elective skills. For each year spent in training, the character may improve their Ritual skill by half SB.
HM1
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This document was last updated 7th February, 1999 by Jamie 'Trotsky' Revell. Comments are welcome.