> On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 04:44:32PM -0800, David Weihe wrote:
>> Thus, I always assumed that Harmast was Orlanth once, and someone else >> (Flesh Man, or perhaps The Knowing God, since he was now THE expert) >> when they retrieved Talor The Laughing Warror.
> If that's the case, then he has _great_ publicity. ;-) It's certainly
> not the implication I took from this: like I said, he appears twice on
> a list that starts off "Orlanth" and ends with "Argrath", no asterisks
> or nuthin'... It is a possible save if you want to have the rule be
> strictly applicable, I'll grant you.
Harmast might be a special case because he may have used differen mythic fragments his second time around - after all he was the hero who put together the stations of the re-enacted Lightbringers' Quest.
> This strikes me as pretty difficult to carry off, since it means you'd
> have to be able to 'prove' your mythic identity with two entirely and
> explicitly different entities. (Though this has been documentedly done,
> certainly.)
by Arkat. Harmast might have learned that trick.
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