Alakoring, Argrath, Pole Star

From: Stephen P Martin <ilium_at_juno.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 02:01:25 EST

Martin Laurie <102541.3423_at_CompuServe.COM> Alakoring & Dragon creation
>
>As for Alakorings victory it seems unlikely that he could defeat a True
Dragon
>in combat so he must have won by other means. I think that he may have
>severed its connection with the "pyramid" of support that maintained
Drang ie
>he caused the Orlanthi who had formed him from their thoughts to leave
the >cycle and take back their Draconic energies.
>

Couldn't his introduction of the cult of Orlanth Rex have done this? By inciting differences between the priests (who ran things) and the kings (who kept the people in line), Alakoring could easily have disrupted the lines of magical support. The only question is, could Alakoring have managed this in the EWF-controlled area?

Joerg Baumgartner <joe_at_toppoint.de>
Re: Dara Happa, Giants
>
>>>Am I the only one who wondered why the giants - especially the Good
Giants,
>>>Gonn Orta's kind - speak Darktongue? They lived in an age _before_ Sky
and
>>>plants when they fought their wars with the dragons. I wouldn't be
>>>astonished if they worshipped Night besides their ancestral deities,
He Who
>>>Moves and "Annilla".
>

No one has answered the question for me, of where it is stated the giants speak Darktongue.

>I'd rather say that the Giants became humanoid when the Man Rune came
up...
>

Yeah, that's what I meant. Yeah.

>>Perhaps most of the Giants speak Darktongue because during the Great
Thomas Doniol-Valcroze <tconrad_at_orbital.fr> Garrath? Garrath Sharpsword?
>
>>...when Garrath Sharpsword (aka Argrath)...
>
>Do you *mean* that Garrath Sharpsword is Argrath? Garrath?
>Oh gee... The letters! Same letters! An anagram! I never noticed it.
>Oh gee... How was I supposed to know? Why did nobody tell me!
>I was right. This was all a big conspiracy. Everybody knew but me!
>

Greg said it in his interview in Tales #7, as I recall. Also, Hargarth the Blade (mentioned in the rumours section of Pavis or The Big Rubble is another alias of Argrath. An ancient, unpublished source (sorry) gives Argrarth the Wander as another alias of the hero.

Joerg and I have been discussing Argrath for two months now, and we have come up with a number of theories. Currently, we plan to host a seminar on Argrath and King of Sartar at Gloranthacon V, in British Columbia. It will focus on who the various Argraths were (for we believe there were a number of individuals who make up the legendary Argrath), plus such questions as Who lit the Flame of Sartar? and Who Did Argrath Marry?

Pole Star
In looking through the brief mention of stars in The Runequest Companion (page 9), I discovered something interesting. The Jonstown Compendium entry states that Dayzatar's Eye and Pole Star are the same star. I guess when Elder Secrets was being written no one at Chaoisum thought to look back there. After going through this stuff time after time for the last three years, you'd think I'd have noticed this discrepancy by now.

>From the fact that _all_ of the stars named in that Jonstown Compendium
entry are of Malkioni heroes, I have to assume that the person who made the entry was from the West, rather than an Orlanthi. I wonder which Elder Secrets or GRoY stars are the ones known in the West as Malkion, Snodal, Jonat, Talor, and Dromal (is that supposed to be Dormal, perhaps?)? Arkat we already know, from ES.

Stephen Martin
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