Broken Council: A future history

From: Dennis Hoover <us001363_at_interramp.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 95 19:16:39 PST

After tBC I (Palangio) had discussions with a couple of the LARP writers. They both mentioned they thought Greg would have written the 'real' Broken Council differently if he had it to do over again. The Dara Happans never could have dominated the council, and the Trolls would never have given up on the Council so easily after all the work the Only Old One put into creating and nuturing it. Our LARP turned out much closer to this view than the historically accurate one. Much of the subsequent history of Glorantha, however, is dependent on Arkat's alliance with the Trolls and the unbalanced nature of Osentalka. This set me to thinking.

• - - - - - - - - - - - - When Palangio returned from the Council, he found Radaidavu, Khorzenelm's son, and kept him safe within Alkoth's impregnable walls, there to await the death of the Darjiin Usurper. Fortunately that day was not long in coming. It seems Mathiman the Impaler had contracted an STD from one of his catamites (whence his soubriquet) and died a horrible death. Radaidavu took the Ten Tests and became Emperor. With the empire secured, Palangio was able to turn his attentions to spreading the good news about the Bright Empire of Nysalor.

When Arkat led his ragtag army of misfits and malcontents into Slontos, he was met by the combined All Races Army commanded by those old friends Kwaratch Kang and Palangio, the Iron Vrok. Arkat's army was crushed.

 Arkat was not through, however. He challenged Nysalor to personal combat, and Nysalor agreed. Nysalor arrived mounted on his golden dragon, wielding Ironbreaker, and engaged Arkat. Long the two battled, and it looked as if Arkat was about to win, when Nysalor called on Shargash and devoured Arkat.

Illuminated Nysalor realized that Choas could never be wiped out; in fact it was the violence done by war and destruction that made the rents in the world through which Chaos entered. So he engineered the Second Comprimise.

After this, nothing stood in the way of the spread of the Bright Empire. In the following centuries it spread across all Genertela. The people of the Empire grew numerous. They gathered into great cities and were content. In time they came to forget the gods. They took sedentary jobs, and they made labor-saving devices. And they invented television. When Arachne Solara beheld all this, she said "This is an abomination". So she gathered in the web of the world, and she ate it.
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E-mail: "Dennis Hoover"<us001363_at_interramp.com> Date: 01/31/95
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