No, it isn't OK, not unless you have players who do exactly what they're told and follow the arrows in the sky labelled "plot this way". (And if you have such players, you have my sympathy.) Orlanth and Ernalda can't be contacted? Better fix that, then. What HQ shall we do? Anyone know a good myth? Hmm, nothing obvious - OK, our PCs had better "remember" one then (ie. the players and GM jointly write one). And off we go - and if the GM doesn't know exactly what's really happened, mythically, they're sunk.
>> Orlanth disappears, Ernalda mourns and goes
Not while up top doing stuff, no. But responding to the loss of a loved one by burying her head in the sand and ignoring all her own responsibilities - not impressed. Not at all. Ernalda IIRC stayed awake trying to look after her people for as long as she possibly could, she only "went to sleep" when there was no more she could do and that was her only means of survival.
> There are underlying mythical truths or archetypes in Glorantha (and
> for that matter the RW). Don't assume that everything has already
> been heroquested beyond all recognition - Orlanth is not a God
> Learner construct, Harmast did not invented the LBQ, Arkat did not
> create Humakt and so on. Sure, there have been some heroquesting
> constructs, but no where near as many as some folk seem to think.
But while those people didn't invent the underlying myth, they did change it. Not sure about Orlanth being a GL construct, that's a new one on me. But Harmast did produce new ways of doing the LBQ, Arkat did change the cult of Humakt.
> The God Learners never understood Orlanthi mythology (heck,
> they thought the Orlanthi didn't have a sun god, were completely
> unaware of the Allfather aspect of Orlanth, and didn't understand
> the role of Heort at all),
Well, they'd only read the RQ2 material, not the HW books :)
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