[Glorantha] Re: Arkat, Nysalor, and Gbaji

Graham Robinson:
  > So we have from two to four entities here - Arkat and his other, and
> Nysalor and his other. And both Arkat and Nysalor are trying to identify
> their enemy with their other, so that defeating one means defeating both.
> (There's also the nice "become what you hate to defeat it" motif, at least
> on Arkat's side. I've always assumed there's symmetry here, but I don't
> know of any firm evidence for Nysalor "becoming" Arkat to defeat him.)

  Some of Nysalor's followers took on extra powers to fight Arkat, so Arkat's attacks drove them to support Arkat's Other. Whether Nysalor himself was forced, or chose, to corrupt himself to fight Arkat is an idea that might need investigating.    

  Simon (Phipp)     Received on Tue 04 Apr 2006 - 12:11:14 EEST