>Me>We are not talking about whether the Heortlings regard him as
> >a superhero* but about whether he is _objectively_ one**.
> >the crude criterion being whether he can hold a candle to
> >Harrek and JarEel in terms of DP statistics.
>This would require all superheroes to be warriors,
No, it doesn't. All it means is that Harrek would have to roll a six to do him/her in. This says nothing about whether the superhero will not attack or even do defensive combat. And in Sartar's case, turning someone into termites so others can pretend they are elves and play STOMP!! would be an combat attack in Dragon Pass.
> >>All Orlanthi know some hero of this
> >>kind and I can't see what makes Sartar stand out from the rest.
>Martin Dick's conversation with Sandy Peterson would seem to indicate
>that Sartar was unusual in that his achievements were made with
>relatively little violence.
One could say the same about Arim the Pauper becoming King of Tarsh. Sartar is unusual in that he does not resort to combat but such does not make him a superhero.
> >>He's not that extraordinary. Look up Hendreiki and the Larnsti
> >>of Heortland (Glorantha: Intro p142-3).
>But p143 also states that Sartar was the only man to ever negate the
>curse that kept the Larnsti confined to Heortland, albeit at the
>price of never being able to return to that land.
Does this make him "extraordinary in terms of glorantha"? For a dragon pass hero, yes, he _is_ noteworthy, but for the wider arena of glorantha, he's only one of many colourful heroes.
--Peter Metcalfe
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