Hardly permanent then.
> ....From the POV of a mundane inhabitant of Chaos
>Age Glorantha, I see little difference in perception.
The cosmology on www.glorantha.com has this to say of the chaos age :
"Though inured to death, the Storm Age was shocked the way the Golden Age had been shocked. True Death, divine entropy, sent some gods into flight, some into inertia, some into more rabid defense."
So death was one thing, but the True Death that consumed Genert and Yamsur was something different, something new.
"Gods of terror in this age included Kajabor and Wakboth as leaders. The Unholy Trio continued their rampage, so that the names of Ragnaglar, Thed, and Malia became synonymous with fear. There were other invaders, too, such as Tien the Headhunter and Krarsht the Hungry One. Beings who had once been Gloranthan in nature, but had turned to Wakboth's ways for their selfish ends (such as Vivamort) prowled the lands."
A clear distinction is made between gods who are Gloranthan in nature and Wakboth, who by implication is not Gloranthan in nature.
"The Age of Terror is another name for the period known as the Greater Darkness. This was the end of the world for most Gloranthan entities, and a period of pain, fear, and misery for the rest. Parts of the world vanished. Parts were isolated and set adrift in a shapeless existence without hope. Nothing was tenable, and even change was unreliable."
"Prevalent belief says that Kajabor was killed by Wakboth, leaving the world defiler to face the Storm Bull and the god of entropy to face the forces of the dead. This theory has much strength, since the mundane world (reconstructed later) was usually held to be the origin of immorality, while the combination of entropy and existence seem to synthesize into the god Time, who later rules the cosmos."
So Wakboth lived and was struck down by Storm Bull, but Kajabor died and faced the forces of the dead. Here we have death working during the chaos age just as it did before and after.
We know of a number of gods utterly destroyed during the Chaos Age. I don't see what the Compromise has to do with that. It saved what was left.
Simon Hibbs
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