Editing The Valley of Cradles (section)

==Trumping==

Stories are littered with symbols and significance, much like the gods. These parts of a story are power, through association with the things that make up the world of time. Enough symbolic significance allows a quester to 'trump' another figure through the direct application of their gods runes or attributes to symbolic parts of a story. An Orlanthi could 'trump' a Gagarthi in a contest of winds by calling on Orlanths position as ruler of storms - but the Gagarthi could 'bid' with the unruly and disobediant nature of his god to counter a trump. Depending on the situation in the story, this may work or fail - in a direct contest of power, the Orlanthi would win, wheras if the story were about driving Orlanth into a rage, the Gagarthi would counter and perhaps even 'trump' the Orlanthi.

Each bid cost one point from your pool, as does a counter and a 'raise'. Some of these points will be returned, to winner and loser, depending on their symbolic 'fit' in the part of the story/quest that they were used