(Deeply heretical thought. Arkat is an agent who brings about great changes, not all of which are desirable. He cheats death, changes form and betrays those who follow him. If he is the son of any God in the Orlanthi Pantheon, he sounds more like a Trickster than anything. As Todd points out, for Humakt to father a child would be to act against his "Death" nature. But for Eurmal to father a child, and to have given a false name to the abandoned mother seems to be perfectly "in character"...)
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Not only that but Eurmal is known, in some myths, to have stolen death on at least two occasions. First to bring death into the world, he stole it for Humakt then he stole it for Orlanth so that Orlanth could use it on Yelm. It would seem entirely plausible that he could steal the unbreakable sword for his own child.
Gavain
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