>On the subject of the Many Suns: what year was the Dawn?
1 ST is the date of the dawn. Some kind of sun was shining before then (in Dragon Pass, it was Elmal shining from Kerofin while Peloria witnessed Kargzant wandering about the sky). But 1 ST marks a real transition from the lights of the Grey Age (the thousand years before the Dawn) to the rising of the Sun. This transition is acknowledged throughout glorantha although they ascribe different reasons for it.
Thus Malkioni:
"Even Zzabur was moved enough [by Malkion's Sacrifice]
to cast his Great Spell to make the Sun reappear [0 ST]
after being unseen for so many centuries."
Glorantha: Intro p47.
"Finally Kargzant grew so bright that even the Monster
People at the edge of the world had to admit that he
had come back [0 ST]."
Glorantha: Intro p173.
"So great and enlightened were our emperors that when
Yanoor came to rule, his radiance was so great that
even foreign devils could finally see the light so
brightly that they thought that they lived in darkness
before then [0 ST]."
Glorantha: Into p195
>So what's going on? Did Plentonius get his dates completely wrong,
>either through error or a wish to glorify his patron Khordavu?
Most probably the latter. It's not that he got his dates wrong, but that he dated various events according to a chronological order that he had discovered. That is why some events of 111 ST look as though they describe the Dawn.
Then again, we can't rule out any post-1 ST "improvements" in the Sun. Probably not the exact years that Plentonius says but close enough. The nature of these solar "improvements" could be have been subtle but Plentonius chose to play them up to glorify his Emperor.
End of The Glorantha Digest V8 #516
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