RE: Fourth Age

From: Steve Barnes <ghidora_at_pacbell.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:58:14 -0700


simon_hibbs writes:

>Mikko Rintasaari :

>>The whole Argrath/Arkat kills all the gods and Glorantha becomes earth is
>>propably the lamest thing Greg has ever written...

My interpretation of the myth is: "We don't really know what happened to the gods, but Argrath must have been involved"

>Nevertheless, it's an inevitable consequence of they mythic logic behind
>the entire history of Glorantha, which has become more and more mundane
>throughout successive ages. Nobody said myths can't be cliches, in
>fact they become such almost by definition.

Problem is, if one wants to run a multi-generation campaign, it kind of sucks if the magic goes away at the end of the Hero Wars...

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