Re: [HeroWars] Re: Imminence

From: Greg Stafford <greg_at_glorantha.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:45:31 -0700


Simon is right on here.

At 02:49 PM 6/15/2001 -0000, Simon wrote:
>> Is that the answer or merely the answer? After all, didn't heroes
>> like Arkat cheat? ...
>
>I think this is a common missunderstanding of Arkat. He skipped
>between myths in mid-heroquest and explored the hero plane in
>a way nobody had before, but he didn't do the kind of myth
>trashing we're talking about here. One of Arkat's own
>ruiles was along the lines of 'no heroquesting without humility'.
>This is where the godlearners went so horribly wrong.

Correct.

>> .....Are there not examples of heroes who did things the
>> "wrong" way and thereby benefited? Likewise, if one must always
>> adhere to the old path, then there can be no new things. That may
>be
>> what the gods would like, but it isn't what happens.

That is correct.

>I think there are more likely to be questers who did things the
>'wrong' way and who then suffered terribly for it - along with
>their followers.

This is also correct.

>You have to ask yourself, if your god failed in some task, why
>did it happen? If the god learned something from their defeat,
>and you win, they you won't learn it. If the god lost due to
>placing a higher priority on a virtue such as trust or love,
>then if you sacrifice that virtue to win then you will lose
>it's benefits.

Exactly.
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