In my campaign I have no heortling clans, actually,
but I think that a good scenario could be built on
this hint: a focal, but not fundamental, point of the
Clan's past is recalled wrongly (how? maybe an Eurmali
changed an archive or convinced a loremaster that he
was wrong some generations ago or confused an
ancestor).
Usually it doesn't matter, because the wrong focal
passage is linked with unusual events (for example it
relates to meeting Aldryami when the clan lives a
hundred miles from them) BUT this unusualliness (sp?),
due to the hero wars, changes. Confronted with an
unusual situation, the clan uses his (messed up)
historical memory to justly react. And the results are
disastrous or merely very embarassing.
A lot of time, effort and empirical searches are needed to understand why, blame the trickster (and his descendants; maybe now they are respected thanes, very formal-looking, and obstinately refuse to contact their ancestor to know the truth, provided someone can estorce it from a dead trickster) and restore the correct mythical relationship with the offended elder race.
Alternatively the clan could decide to settle with the new course and by heroquesting change its actual past...
comments?
Ciao,
Gian
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