> >
> > The real world truth about the "was raised by the elves of brithos" might
> > come from the fact, that the Brithini are the aloof people, that in other
> > fantasy worlds the elves are. When Greg fist mentioned the "raised by
> > elves", he might not have had a detailed idea about the elves/aldryami of
> > Glorantha.
> /// Interesting. That would rid us of some extra complication in Arkat's
> life.
> Do you all agree with this one ? Do we get rid of Arkat's internship with
> aldryami ?
>
You may, if you wish, but in fact I have some writing here that prove otherwise.
> > I donīt see the "son of Humakt" bit as a fact.
> > Humakt is the father of Arkat in the same way that Natha is the mother of
> > JarEel, or the same way that Broyan is a son of Orlanth.
> /// Yup, I agree with you on that one. Especially if we get rid of the
> aldryami
> connection - Arkat was born a freak, but not the child of an invading
> theist
> hero/demigod. Still wonder who his parents were though.
>
Bang, ten Hero Points for you.
In fact, this is a major question for him, and for his contemporaries.
In the narrative on hand, from his friend TMP, we see at first-hand the
longing for a father, but since Arkat is secondary in that story we only see
his sideways.
As you know, the status of Brithini children is determined by which child
they are by the *Z6 Count*, an arcane method to calculate using both the
mother's and father's number of previous children. In Arkat's time, the
children were , successively: farmer, soldier, ruler, mage; then start over
again.
An apparently scandalous and widespread event obliquely referred to only as
*Fourscore-and-twelve*, or more simply 82 (used as a noun, verb, and
modifier) seems to have somehow scrambled record keeping, and resulted in a
number of misnumbered children. Brithini secrecy is tremendous, but I
speculate this is likely to have occurred during the contemporary Mudman
War, referred to in the TMP record.
Arkat's origin, coming out of the forests, is well known. Everyone of these refugees was rigorously tested by the Brithini for purity and quality. Several of them were executed for impurity. They never made mistakes. Never.
Which is why Arkat was such an absolute bother to them--their magic could never prove him impure, or wrong.
--
Greg Stafford
Game Designer
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