In developing a scenario around a recently discovered ancient cradle, this gives you a couple of options depending on when the action takes place compared with "The Cradle" scenario, and how true you want to be to Chaosiums house campaign.
If your cradle is not going to be explored until after "The Cradle", you can find a Gold Wheel Dancer on it or not, without affecting Gloranthan Continuity. If you are exploring it before, and want a Gold Wheel Dancer then the one you discover can be Pinching, released from stasis by your pc's rather than resurrected by Urrgh. Otherwise the sudden appearance of a member of this long extinct race would seem lileky to cause a fair bit of excitement.
On the other hand, maybe the lack of a GWD is what caused this Cradle to go astray, and the Elder Giants could have sent others, but didn't as "Look what happened last time"
Presumably something has to help guide the EG baby through the underworld and back out again (Anyone can get to hell by sailing down Magasts's whirlpool, the tricky bit is getting out again). Would it be a fair assumption that the GWD was involved in this? (I know very little about them, cut the name suggests a link with Yelm who travels through the underworld every night?) If this is the case than any alternative guardian would need to have similar abilities/.
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