> > Greg was pretty definite at Victoria, that if you are in the land
> > of the dead, then you are dead.
>
> So then the Lightbringers were dead too when they went there ?!?
Yes.
Andrew Larsen :
> >> Yelm still went to Hell (even if it was in small pieces) and
> >> that is the same as being dead (even for heroquesters).
Those pieces of Yelm were dead ; and his Yelm-piece was dead.
> > In which case, how can a Humakti ever heroquest to Hell and return?
Good question : When a Humakti goes on the Road to Hell, it means that he has lost his Sword and is seeking it there. Humakt goes to Hell and finds his Sword and the Monster of the Void. He cripples it so that Arachne Solara can overcome and swallow it. Humakt then joins the Council of Gods and uses the Death Sword to shatter the Well of Death and restore life to the world.
This is Humakt's greatest Quest ; the transcendental LifeQuest of the Death Wielder ; it is the only proper way for a Humakti to return to life.
Yanafal Tarnils did something else though, didn't he ; or Humakt wouldn't have been so shocked.
> For that matter, that would mean that all the Lightbringers died and
> resurrected themselves.
They did. That was Chalana Arroy's Quest, more than the others.
But they were all seeking to bring the dead world back to life ; and they needed to be dead themselves to acheive this (to express the idea in rather mundane terms).
Julian Lord
End of The Glorantha Digest V8 #26
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