[Glorantha] On the subject of demigods

In message <20070220073420.35157.qmail@web27203.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Jane Williams writes:
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>--- "Donald R. Oddy" <donald@grove.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> I think you are exploring on the edge of what anyone
>> knows about Glorantha. I can't recall any mortal
>> children of gods in any publications, no doubt someone
>> with a better library than mine will disagree if I'm
>> wrong.
>
>Donald! Children of Yinkin no, child of a deity, most
>definitely, and I'd have thought you were in the top
>half-dozen people least likely to forget it.
>
>Sky Ship. Danar. Son of Rigsdal and Kallyr.
>Chronologically probably in his late teens, and a
>scholar and magician who happens to be a better
>fighter than she is, to go by the description.

It isn't clear from GT that Danar is even Kallyr's son although I remember a discussion confirming that. I'd completely missed the bit about Rigsdal being his father. So I wouldn't count that as published.

>And going much further back, didn't Arkat claim to be
>a son of Humakt? I'm not at all convinced that that
>was meant to be literal, though.

Yes, there are lots of references like that but whether they should be regarded as literaly true is doubtful.

-- 
Donald Oddy
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