>> It might be possible to separate them out with an
>> awful lot of weaseling and squeezing, but the easy and
>> obvious answer is that they were the same person. How
>> come two ancestries? Easy. The Saga tells us about his
>> parents having died when he was a child. So what would
>> have happened to him between then and adulthood?
>> Fosterparents. Which lot of parents came first, and
>> whether either "father" was present at the conception,
>> is another question, but getting him both ancestries
>> is easy.
>
> I think most of these questions will be answered by the Grand Argrath
> Campaign that Greg is working on. That being said, I think that it is
> worth keeping in mind that not all the source material can be - or
> should be - reconciled. The existence of mutally contradictory
> material is part of Glorantha's "realism". Try reconciling sources
> from the Classical world - many sources disagree or contradict each
> other, and much of our view of history is based simply upon which
> source survived (or is more approachable). In short, don't worry so
> much about the contradictions - instead, embrace the contradictions
> and enjoy them.
You bet - but we all have our hobbies, as the "author" of KoS would say.
Michael
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