In Gloranthan terms (i.e. what someone on the world itself would say) there are three things to be defined.
A heroquester is one who has successfully entered the GodTime and brought back some benefit or change for himself or his people. He has worked a Will-backed change but it is one that has been made before. He is following a path trod by an earlier Hero, the knowledge of which is maintained in the Mundane World by the Hero's cult.
A Hero is one who has gone into the GodTime and done something new. He has trod a path no-one else ever has before and found some unique power for himself and his people. He has become by the act of weaving his Will into the web of the world, part of the eternal pattern of Glorantha. This means he exists partly in the GodTime. It also means that his quest must be reaffirmed each Sacred Time by his Cult. To change metaphors, his cult must dance the steps that he took in the GodTime as part of the great Dance of the World to keep it real in the Mundane World. Not all Heros are military powers but all are part of the reality of Glorantha. But the ones we hear about on the military/political scene will tend to be militarily significant.
A SuperHero has done all that a Hero has done and something more. I would say he has somehow touched the Infinity Rune, a thing that is naturally only given to Dragons and the highest of the Gods. There is a qualitative as well as a quantitative difference. How Harrek managed it I don't know...
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(Arms: Purpure, an open book proper. On the dexter page the letter Alpha or.
On the sinister page the letter Omega of the same.)
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