I finished reading "Masters of Luck and Death" the other night. I still don't think it's required reading the way most other Issaries publications have been, but it's upgraded from "it's nice to have" to "I'm glad I have it".
Reading the final hero band (School of Ronos Allwinds), there was a reference to followers of Belintar believing that he was divided into seven parts, which were hidden across Glorantha. They're now searching for them to "put Belintar together again", to borrow a phrase.
I've also read (I believe in "Glorantha: Introduction to the Hero Wars") that Nysalor was dismembered by Arkat at the end of that little squabble, and his pieces were hidden across Glorantha.
(It gets a little murkier than that, actually, as I got the impression from "MoLaD" that Belintarian philosophy was influenced by Nysalorian philosophy.... But anyway.)
And we know that it's difficult to make a heroquest (say, resurrecting your god or demigod) come out exactly how we choose.
So: I think one element of my (entirely hypothetical) HeroQuest saga will be for the player heroes to help resurrect Belintar. And then: Oops! Time to find (an) Arkat....
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