What's happening?
Did the Godlearners heroquest to yahoogroups to destroy any evidence of Arkat?
Harry.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grawe, Philipp
> Sent: Tuesday, 1 May 2001 9:15 PM
> To: HeroWars_at_yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: why is everyone so down on Arkat?
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> From: <gamartin_at_...>
> > Arkat gets a pretty heavy bad rep out of HW so far, although does
> > appear to be in part a mixed message. Why is Arkat called the
> > Deceiver, and what do people have against him to have so slandered
> > his name?
>
> I got the impression from some writings (can't remember
> which, was it Gods
> of Terror?), that Arkat, in some cultures, is even confused
> with Gbaji.
> This may be in a literal sense or it may be in the sense that
> he went so far
> in his quest to kill Gbaji that in the end there was little difference
> between them. Either way, the name the Deceiver fits the bill.
>
> He's the classic example of someone who started out trying to achieve
> something for a common good and got so caught up in his quest
> that he lost
> sight of all else, to the point of giving up his humanity. To the
> Heortlings he's "the man who gave up his humanity to beat his
> enemy". To
> them, I guess, it's a step too far.
>
> I've always had a vaguely soft spot for Arkat (not that I
> know too much
> about him), he always struck me as more of a tragic figure
> than a figure to
> be despised. I mean, in his quest to prove that Nysalor's
> illumination is
> evil and wrong, he became illuminated himself.
>
> "He who fights with monsters might take care
> lest he thereby become a monster.
> And if you gaze for long into an abyss,
> the abyss gazes also into you." -Nietsche
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> Harry.
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