Will there be an Official HeroQuest product that covers what happens next in the Trollsaga? We've got a dubious source (KoS) what happens next to the Lunar Empire/Orlanthi nutters, and when the Argrath Campaign is done the definite version (I do jest). Will there be an indication to what happens next to other cultures in your Glorantha?
Cheers
Jon
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> YGWV
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> This is an old, old email that I found drifting around my email box.
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> Rich Crofts wrote:
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> > I have a question about mythic events that have occurred since
time
> > began. Specifically I am interested in the wounding of Korasting
and
> > the curse of the Trollkin.
> >
> > Presumably this action took place in the Otherworlds.
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> Actually it did not. It was at the Battle of Night and Day, in
Kerofinela.
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> http://www.glorantha.com/new/battle_nightday.html
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> > Therefore, my
> > assumption is that the adamantine claws used by Gbaji to wound
> > Korasting would exist in the Otherworlds.
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> "Adamantine claws" is likely to be metaphorical. Nysalor appeared
and
> was eaten by Kyger Litor, and inside her he maimed her reproductive
> ability (i.e. her Korasting parts.) The "adamantine" indicates that
it
> was of force sufficient to permanently damage the Great Goddess.
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> That having been said, there could be inferior duplicates of this
curse,
> created of iron, in the form of said claws worn by troll-fighters.
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> > Any "instances" of the
> > claws in the mundane world would be representations only (gained
by
> > a heroquester) not the actual claws. Similarly the Otherworld
Cloak
> > that would enable Kyger Litor to avoid Gbaji would be only found
in
> > the Otherworlds. Or can /has there been any cross-over in terms
of
> > these sorts of mystical items?
> >
> > If indeed the actual items do only exist in the Otherworlds,
would
> > finding a mundane world representation of said items be useful to
> > Kyger Litor herself, if a cultist could take the items to her in
> > Wonderhome? My thought would be that representations would have a
> > lesser power than the original and therefore are probably not
likely
> > to overcome the resistances that Kyger Litor would meet in
trying to
> > alter the mythical event.
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> You are correct in your assumption. Any mundane world
representation
> would be an inferior copy.
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>
> > And, if Kyger Litor did gain the three mystical tools needed to
try
> > and reverse the curse,
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> What tools are those?
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> > what effect would success have on the Great
> > Compromise? Would it serve to restore some Law or would the
action
> > just be a cumulative change leading to even more instability?
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> That's a good question. unanswered, of course, since curse has
proven
> impossible to heal.
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> --Greg Stafford
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