> One of the factors that everyone has ignored thus far in this discussion
is
> that the World of People BECAME the Underworld during the Darkness. The
> world collapsed upon each other under the forces of primal chaos so that
> people were unable to distinguish between the living and the dead, between
> spirits of gods, etc. Elmal defended his people throughout the ordeal and
> was present at the Compromise.
I like this a lot. As usual with mythologic, to the outsider it presents as many problems as it solves - instead of LBQing, Orlanth and company could have stayed in Stormstead and waited for the Underworld to come to them.
This *isn't* a problem for a Heortling, and I don't want to present it as such. Orlanth set off 'before' the conflation of the worlds, and besides, it was what was *accomplished* during the journey that counts, not the piddling subway ride down to once-brother Humakt's little closet.
Yelm is the Evil Emperor, king of the Fire Tribe. Elmal is, and always has been, the sun. As to how he lost his fire powers...
John
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