A good point about where he ended up. I'm assuming that he did so during the ritual build-up to the year-king ceremony. I'm also assuming that he did in fact change the future from what he had known.
I'm assuming that it is in fact possible to change the past of Glorantha under these special circumstances. Otherwise, why bother?
>
> Or was Belintar one of these future Year Kings being clever to avoid the
> sacrifice, and fell back into the Ocean?
Yes! My thinking is that the Year-King ceremony became oppressive in the future and no longer sought volunteers but was used as means of political control. Belintar was chosen because he was the eldest son of a discontented aristocratic family and found a unique way of escaping his fate.
> >However, there is one major difficulty. In HeroQuesting (according to how I'm
> >writing it up) you will usually rely enormously on the support of the people
> >back home. You form a HeroQuesting Ring which allows the priests and people
> >back at home base to channel their Will to the person who is the focus of the
> >Ring. As soon as you begin to make a change in the past your future help is
> >destroyed and you must continue with what personal Will you have.
>
> Unless, like Belintar, you can draw upon the support of the country itself
> rather than the people you laft back in the future.
Yes, the country back in the past might well recognise him as a 'rightful King' thus undercutting the priestesses' control.
> (Plus I don't think that
> Belintar really changed his own past...)
Well, I do.
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