From: Andrew Joelson (joelsona@cpdmfg.cig.mot.com)
Date: Tue 08 Jul 1997 - 23:24:08 EEST
Jose Ramos wrote:
>Harmast, I think, was just an orlanthi whose make up was perfectly tuned
>to the LBQ. So once he set up in the path of a hero, he tended to use the
>LBQ, or fragments of such to solve all his troubles (so he did it twice!).
Jeff Richard:
> When I read Harmastsaga, I did not get this impression. Harmast mucked
> up the LBQ and got lost in Ralios. As for using fragments of the LBQ -
> I got the opposite impression. It seemed that every myth-path that
> Harmast knew got thrown into the LBQ.
I haven't read the Harmast Saga, but I have heard parts of it
read aloud. I was under the impression that Harmast set out to LBQ
knowing that his knowledge of the myths was imcomplete. He made the
preparations he knew he needed, then did some other prep stuff from other
orlanthi quests, in case the tools would come in usefull. He expected
to either rediscover the necessary steps/paths along the way, or to
have to improvise (as Orlanth did many times).
Yes Harmast 'got lost' in Ralios (or lost the path), but he
mucked about with the locals a bit, and managed to get back on.
He also had an encounter with a former wife on the God-Plane
(presumable deceased, but I'm not quite positive about it), visiting
the stead of a friendly being whose name I can't recall. I doubt
that was in Orlanth's original, particularly since this occurred during
the Westfaring.
Andrew
"The Muse struck me the other day, but I am recovering nicely"
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