Andrew Behan mentioned the coincidental nature of the Emperor (of W40K
fame) and Arkat. Quite frankly, it was probably no coincidence. The
concept of law/chaos which warhammer uses could have easily come from
anywhere eg. Zelazny's Amber, Moorcock, etc. However, 'chaos beastmen'
from warhammer bear more than just a slight resemblance to Broo...ie. dirty,
chaos mutations, commonly with ram-like heads.....I may be cynical, but
the various Warhammer games (W40K to a lesser extent) owe a great deal to
runequest...In the early 1980's games workshop used to publish runequest
here in Britain, too. Hmmmmm.
By the way, how similar to 'griffin mountain' was 'griffin island?' I
only ever had the latter, but from what people have been saying, it just
sounded like 'griffin mountain' was adapted from glorantha to 'gateway.'
Dominic.
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