Sartar/Larnste

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_...>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 08:07:41 +0100

> That's certainly the interpretation I've always heard. That Sartar
> basically flipped the prohibition on its head. He could leave
> Heortland,
> but never return. He then made himself king and a god, which
> of course,
> makes you the least free you can possibly be. (So it seems he was sort
> of an inverted Larnsti in lots of things.)

It does sound that way, doesn't it? And since, as we all know, things that are completely opposite are in fact the same, it makes sense.

Main Sartar page is 242, and no real hints there.  

> Hang on a tic, now a memory is rattling in my brain that Sartar was an
> initiate of Issaries. Or am I remembering that wrong?

I remember him as a Hero of Issaries (this is pre-HW/HQ, so the term had a more normal-English meaning then). But he's always been a specialist in Change.

ST p109 - "Issaries is the son of Larnste..."  

ST p 236, at the bottom: "Sartar the Founder, who learned the secrets of Transformation from Larnste and united his people."

Hang on a sec. Learnt secrets from Larnste (without necessarily becoming Larnsti). United his people. Doesn't this sounds remarkably similar to what Broyan was doing in about 1617? At about the same time as Kallyr (of the House of Sartar, sort of) decided to "personally serve" him?

Jeff? Any other experts on Broyan? What's going on here, then?