| Ogres are naturally chaotic. Their taint is an integral part of the race, due to the
betrayal of the ancestors during the Great Darkness when they joined the forces of chaos.
The chaos rune is a natural part of their make-up. Thus being cleansed is not easy-it would
be akin to a Heortling removing the air rune from himself. Or, to put it in terrestrial terms,
like a human removing his nervous or circulatory system!
But it is not impossible-just cosmically difficult. Note that this process is NOT known to
the beings of Glorantha. The few individuals who have achieved it (like that lonely broo up
in the Rockwoods) have not shared it with others-their own race don't want to know, and the
other races don't believe them if they tell it!
Most being who attempt this will fail. That is because the few who attempt it perform the
removal part, but if successful, are so maladjusted that they cannot survive. They would know
his deletion is necessary, and would be imagining that they would become what the ogre was
before the betrayal. But this is impossible-the thing that became ogres were not just ogres
without the chaos, but something else entirely that does not exist anymore.
So to succeed, an ogre would have to remove the chaos rune and-here is the secret- replace
it with something else. So the simplest replacement would be with the opposite of Chaos:
the Law Rune.
Such a cleansed ogre would be obsessively concerned with maintaining the cosmic order. He'd
probably not be associated with any specific deity or pantheon, but with the "higher order"
of the cosmos. He'd have a natural affinity with others with the rune, though they might
not accept him.
I do not think that physical changed would accompany the spiritual transformation.
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