>This
>makes no difference on Earth of course, but a Gloranthan Heroquester who
>believes there were no plants before the Green Age, and then goes back
>to a pre-green age event will have to find no plants, otherwise they
>will know they are not at the write time/place.
I don't think this is true because it leads to some downright silly ideas. F'instance, Joe Hero goes back before the Green Age. According to you, he should find no plants. So what then is being eaten? Who believes that there were no plants before the Green Age?
Also several heroes have gone back into the past and found something new about the place they have visited. The Wendarian Age discovered by Valare Addi is one. So I don't think the idea of being in the wrong place would occur to most heroquestors.
David Cake:
>These skills made it easy for the God Learners to
>collect knowledge about the heroplane, with relatively limited personal
>danger (the big difference between the God Learners and the Arkati, who
>collected knowledge about the heroplane at great personal risk, by simply
>heroquesting a lot).
What makes you think that the God Learner exploitation of the Other Side was a piece of cake? Their Empire was founded on Blood, Soil, Tears and Toil of the countless God Learners who fought to free Seshnela from the Cruel Slavery of the Dark Empire, to make the Seas open to all Men, to free Caladraland, God Forgot and Esrolia from the Dragons. They fought tooth and nail against the Damnable Krjalki wherever and whenever they could be found and although their losses were grevious, the God Learners never slacked from their manifest duty to make Glorantha Human.
The Arkati innovation in HeroQuesting was the use of multiple viewpoints. They could change from the path of a Malkioni Knight to that of a Zorak Zorani Death Lord. It was this that the God Learners used. The God Learners did not use all the Arkati Secrets for some of them were tainted by filthy Gbajism.
Me>>They could be cruel or kind
>>whenever they chose, but it was a charade, a special mercurial mimicry
>>which they had discovered.
> 'mercurial mimicry' sounds more like Illumination, which I think
>was a small part of the God Learner arsenal, though sometimes an important
>part.
No, it isn't Illumination. The Illuminate never changes his spots, the God Learners did. They could analyse the world by using the RuneQuest Sight, seeing the multiform radiations in terms of runic power. What they did was to use the RuneQuest Sight to see within _themselves_. Thus they knew what it meant to be Kind in terms of the Runes. Furthermore they knew how to change the Soul's position in the Cosmic Matrix using the Mobility Rune and then use the Stasis Rune to make the changes as hard as adamant. Thus they could tailormake themselves to suit whatever quest they wanted.
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