Re: What was that about Y-G-WILL-V?

From: John English <john_at_theenglishs.fsnet.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:18:16 -0000

> In message <20050323120019.26485.qmail_at_diablo.albionsoft.com>,
> glorantha-request_at_rpglist.org writes
>>Ye olde Pharaoh the Time Traveller? Time Travel doesn't work in glorantha
>>like that.
>
> Does in mine. In fact my last RQ campaign but one featured the players
> finding a copy of KING OF SARTAR. They gave it to Starbrow. (Had an
> unfortunate effect of driving mad the Sages who used Divine Magic to
> translate it but nothing in this world is perfect.)

Like it!

Having been ruminating about the whole Harshax thing for a few days I ended up wondering if it couldn't be both?

Something like this:

In the future Belintar Harshax finally frees himself from the magical imprisonment (or whatever it is Jar-Eel has done to him) and begins plotting his revenge. He builds up a power base becoming the Harshax of KOS. Finally through magical experimentation he finds a way of travelling back in time to confront his tormentors.

Travelling backwards in time however has an unravelling effect on memory (which after all is supposed to develop forward in time) so he ends up in the past highly magically skilled and convinced of his right to rule but with only shadowy recollection of what brought him here (shades of Quantum Leap).

Again he builds up a power base, but it is only with the coming of the Lunar Empire that he begins to recall what happened to him, and at the last moment, now knowing what is coming makes the preparations that ensure his eventual release. And around he goes again...

Just a thought, but unless I come across anything better I think that's how it's going to work in my Glorantha!

John

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