I think this is one of the extreme cases - Arkat is one case that springs to mind where the story and the myth have gotten this confused.
I mean, any number of Arkat successors claim to know the truth. After 1000 years in-game, for a GM it probably doesn't really matter what really happened. The truth is relative and contradictory stories are both true.
The fun part of the modern Arkati is that there are a whole bundle of them and each of them reckons they are the true successors to Arkat whereas none of them have the true story.
Ian Thomson has a writeup of the Old Arkat Alliance on his site, that's another take on it that may appeal to you (http://home.primus.com.au/arkat)
I always got the impression that that was how Arkat was meant to be portrayed. So many contradictions, so many enemies, so many different takes on his story. The events happened 1000 years ago, so unless your game is being run in 700ST, that's all the information anyone in Glorantha has (there are bound to be exceptions...)
Harry.
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