[HQ Ignorance] Scene 60: The Angel of Mourning. Thinking time

[Nic Hughes]

Sam Elliot wrote:
> Stop right there! (in the words of Meatloaf)
>
> I have to say at this point that one of the things I most like about
> heroquests is having to find out what the story is in the first place
> (after playing KoDP, you see). I wouldn't mind a bit of that,
> personally. 

Yes, although what I had in mind was starting with the oral histories 
and then us role-playing the filling in of the gaps and trying to work 
out how it might fit together.

> Given we are talking Arkati juju here, and given our
> characters seem to be at the toppling kingdoms level (somehow), can we
> not go dangerous and rewrite the story? Get a version from Azhur (or
> better yet, from the banner) and a version from Wilkairtha, one from
> Knarl.
>
>   

Toppling kingdoms? Yeah, must be that butterfly wing thingy. Only if its 
all chaos theory what does that say about the characters?

> Why did they get cursed, by the way? Can't remember.
>
>   

Seems to depend on who is telling the story. For the Malkioni the story 
is that they learned secrets of wolfiness from Gbaji that were tainted 
by their source and Talor came along and showed them the taint. I think 
the Telmori think they were just learning to be true to their nature and 
happily helping their teacher when the big nasty wizard types came along 
and cursed them for supporting their enemy.

I'm out on a limb here but Wilkairtha and Knarl probably have variations 
on the same story. The banner and the libraries of the city probably 
have variations on the Malkioni version of the story. Both versions of 
the story have them learning stuff from Nysalor/Gbaji, then meeting 
Talor at the end of which meeting they are cursed in a way that nobody 
has been able to fix ever since. The interpretations of the story are 
very different (a bit like the whole Orlanth/Yelm lightbringer cycle).

Of course the bit of heroquesting I really love is where everyone thinks 
they know their myths but when you cross to the other side it never 
quite seems to work out that way.

Nic


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