Castelean was not even close to being in Harmast's league in that sort of power or ambition. According to the stories Greg has written, Harmast didn't knowingly set out to tie things togther - certainly not at first.
I think Arkat was really the pioneer of that sort of exploratory mythic research but I suspect even he drew heavily on Harmast's experience.
Caselain had the advantage of great works already done by these two but was dealing with an area that had been systematically abused by the God Learners.
Jeff
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> forgive my ignorance, but I seem to recall that being the case with the
> Lightbringer myth and Harmast as well. All the bits of the story were
> there, but not connected, and he reconstructed the overall myth into one
> complete narrative.
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> This might be completely wrong, but that was the impression I had. (Now,
> in his case, I think he *did* know he was doing it, unlike your idea for
> Caselein.)
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