> Your Glorantha Will Vary
>
> ... I'm *very* loathe to call you out as wrong about Glorantha Greg, but in
> my opinion
I can take it :-)
> Hrestoli theology practically *requires* that Joy is an inherent quality of
> Reality, and that Hrestol's Action was more Revelation than Creation.
>
That is correct.
Hrestol never claimed he did, nor (I thought) have I ever said that he
created it.
A visit to Malkion's Garden of Revelation will prove it, if you can sit
still through the preliminary speeches and prayers, to finally hear the
Prophet transport us all to "The other place on this mountain," which is
said to produce the same effects as Joy.
> Hrestol was absolutely 100% the first to experience Joy in the particularly
> fulsome manner described in the sources ; this does not mean that Joy could
> not be experienced before Hrestol.
>
And, within recorded history and heroquesting--that is, since the Dawn, he is the first to access it and bring back the methods to others.
The fact that this happened after the Dawn is proof it is not an original creation of his, but has some other spiritual origin. Joy is not a short World.
--
Greg Stafford
Game Designer
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