Honestly, in the Grombrindal = Prince Snorri Whitebeard scenario, I could see Snorri Whitebeard becoming the Ancestral god of Diplomacy given that he was the one that negotiated in this time-line, the oldest diplomatic relation between the Dawi and another sapient species, the Griffons and Dawi ,
provided the following:
1. Snorri Whitebeard befriends Malekith, and establishes the Golden Age relations between Dawi and Elgi.
2. Malekith never falls, and successfully ascends the Phoenix Throne. The War of Vengeance is averted.
3. Gazul passes the responsibility of the Dawi Inquisition across the Karaz Ankor against internal subversion
to Snorri , as agents to prevent disloyalty to the High King.
4. Somehow, communications in the Karaz Ankor reach the point an actual centralized federal "modern" state emerges in the Karaz Akor, in the office of the High King and his royal bureaucracy.
In doing so, Snorri becomes the Ancestral God of the Karaz Ankor itself
as a unified state, a united body that conducts
diplomacy with other sapient races as one, following his pacts with both the King of the Sky and the Phoenix Kings that endure the test of time,
and also the internal organs of said state - such as a federal "intelligence agency" that guards against subversion of the Dawi and ensure the continued loyalty of Dawidom to the Karaz Ankor and Ancestor Gods. He is the Patron God of the Diplomatic Corps, the Inquisition, and the Bureaucracy of the Karaz Ankor.
This goes to show just how many
improbable (the Eastern Dawi do not all fall to Hashut level improbable) hoops Snorri/Grombrindal would have to cross to go from the upper end of Minor Ancestor gods to Major Ancestor gods. Snorri/Grombrindal needs to generate a fundamental Paradigm Shift in Dawi society, to make Diplomacy a concept fundamental in a way the other Ancestor Gods never really managed, to Dawi society.
As for our character, Snorri of clan Winterhearth, I'd say let's take it one step at a time. Let's first solidify our status as a Minor Ancestor of the Hold, something we are close to doing so, while laying foundations for the next stage,
Minor Ancestor of the Far North. Only if we solidify our status as the Minor Ancestor of the Far North, might we consider how to break into the lower tiers of universal Dawi cultural Heroes, but I think that redefining the radical -Conservative paradigm or even creating a new third political paradigm altogether in Runesmith politics would secure that for Snorri in the Cult of Thungi. We are a long way from that point though, but I think the seeds are there.
Another path would be for Snorri to continue working with the Cult of Valaya, in time laying the extended foundations of an inter-guild Karaz Ankor wide institution to address Dawis who have sustained disabilities due to accidents and wars. This, as Moria warns, is a path that Snorri needs to walk carefully, but I think creating an entire brotherhood/sisterhood of Runesmiths dedicated to researching and crafting Prosthetics for the Cult of Valaya and the restoration of disbilities would be a start. It would be very difficult though, and indeed something that Snorri would probably only be able to do past the age of 1500 and with enough standing in the Cult of Thungi and Valaya to make an institutional development that is also life-changing for many, many unlucky Dawi over the centuries.
Let us above all remember the meme: Dawi Santa, with regards to our aspirations at Ancestorship.
@soulcake
Is the idea of "Sainthood" an appropriate analogy for thinking about Dawi Ancestors at the lower end of the Ancestor "gods" list, with the veneration of minor ancestor "gods" being akin to the Veneration of Saints at the level above the clan, minus of course a centralized body to confer Sainthood? So basically, it's a continumn starting with an Ancestral "Saint" venerated by a clan, then a hold, then a region or multiple, then Karaz Ankor wide with Grombrindal straddling the line between "saint" and "god"?
After all.... the whole idea of Snorri is that of a Runlord that might in time, posthumously become Dawi Santa.... Snorri who is Saint Nicholas who morphs into Dawi Santa after his life seems to be an apt analogy to the aspirations behind Snorri's design and themes.
