The God Learner's secret and the Great Compromise from argant1800 on 2007-02-16 (World of Glorantha)

From: argant1800 <argant1800_at_KckH-9PzcZr884lYGaVhGLkI5eu7HUI7Y_AdcdZQ8897emOUO0uSkckueVrg5kKCL>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:47:38 -0000

Greg,

In fact I was the one who initiated the topic on the Mongoose Forum
(yes, I am "The King" for those who browse there) and though the name
of the topic was more an eye-catcher, my question was to know the reason why suddenly the God Learner's were eradicated. For this action to take place, a decision had to be made. Then, Why and who gave this decision?

Here is how I opened the said topic:

Could possibly the God Learners have involved time in the heroquests? Let's say they found a possibility to warp time to suit their needs and act thus in the quests as they wish, appropriating the powers and artefacts of the gods and acting thus (while on a heroquest) as if time didn't exist, that is without begining nor end, and having thus a critical advantage on everyone else, gods included, who has to follow the flow of time.

I mean this: the end of the 1st age was provoked by the fall of Nysalor and the mighty war to stop him. But though he was a god and however powerful Nysalor/Gbaji might have been, only the mortals
(especially trolls) did fight him, with some attaining a godly
essence (Arkat).

On the other side, God learner's were just mortal beings (not as powerful as a god who has cursed the troll race) but their destruction was only possible due to the intervention of the gods who eradicated any and all spurs of the god learner's. Creating such a consensus of all the gods against them, this means thus that the gods feared that the "Arachne Solara Agreement" would just become void
(pun intended) bringing an end to Time and retriggering the god war.

What is your opinion on this?

I mean essentially this: when the God Learner's brought back both spiritual and physical pieces of the God Time, wasn't the danger great enough to open the path (a bit like the Hounds of Tindalos in the Cthulhu mythos)?

Thanks,
Frédéric.