And hell, why not link it with the Scorpion Men if you want? Maybe part of the Pharaoh's quest involved some kind of ritual battle with the Scorpion Men or a Queen. So in failing that part, he provides the magical boost for the Scorpion Men eruption. The health of the land is connected to the health of the king, and all that.
No one in my game has asked yet, but that might be my answer until something canonical comes out.
(Personally, I would love to see some detail on life in Heortland and the Heortland cities come out. The fact that it is effectively blank except for the northern hill tribes is extremely annoying.)
LC
On Sun, 2005-05-06 at 19:23 +0100, Jane Williams wrote:
> > The "King Owain" story is simply outside the parameters of what is
> > likely to be in the definitive version of the events, and really
> > doesn't fit what we've learned about Heortland in the last few years.
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> They wouldn't have been rescuing the Pharoah, perhaps?
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> > Another thing, after Andrin the Zombie King, the later Heortlending
> > kings seem a pretty colorless lot.
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> So we're going to be swapping the colourful and heroic Owain for someone
> boring and colourless? This is a good idea how, exactly? Come, on at least
> swap him for someone equally fun!
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