It all makes sense now, we've been manipulated into taking part in those Lunies' rather odd shamanic practices, and coincidentally got initiated in a breakaway civilization's extensive drug network. Hence they're isolationist and found a subject to defend their interests.
Depending on Suqahs which fend off foreigners, they thrive on each other by using magical runes to protect their precious stash, a means to serve their spiritual, political and economic interests, maintaining diplomatic relations with a powerful but primitive civilization, and using religious ideas to their own advantage to prevent interference in their business.
The harmony of this ecosystem's cycle is quite poetic and Guthixian too: minerals get eaten by beasts, then they get farmed for their precious "materials" to sustain the settlers, and the clan gets a monopoly over local rune production. These things help to instill fear in unwanted outsiders - including those sailors and Fremennik whose meddling they don't really appreciate- I think the implications of those threats in Lunar Diplomacy were real.
Not addicted but committed
24-Nov-2018 19:35:35
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