>However, how
>much do your subjective view colour your perception of the Godtime.
>If I heroquest and encounter Arkat, will he be dressed as I see him
>on pictures in illuminated books (similar to a modern knight) or will
>he be clothed in the real apparel of his era?
Most people when they heroquest go to the portion of the mythic world closest to them. Since this was last renewed less than a year ago (in most cases - think of easter), the modernizing attitudes of the poplace will cause Arkat to appear in apparel that they _expect_ him to be wearing. Since the modernized version is updated from the _previous_ modernized version (as opposed to the original), the changes are gradual. (Moreover this version applies only for a distinct group. Enemies of Arkat will, frex, see him differently).
However if the poplace had a myth fragment which effectively told them that Arkat did not have such a thing than this feature will *not* be modernized. The best example of this is Homer's Illiad where everybody is said to have used bronze weapons (changing bronze to iron couldn't be done for iron had one more syllable than bronze [in greek] which would have distorted the meter of the epic).
What the Lunar T&Jers are doing is travelling to the distant parts of the mythic world and using the knowlege from there ('there were people before Yelm!') to undermine the recieved orthodoxy.
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