Re: Arkat and HeroQuesting

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From: David Cake (davidc@cs.uwa.edu.au)
Date: Thu 10 Jun 1993 - 07:02:30 EEST

        Arkat did not invent HeroQuesting, many cults went on HeroQuests during the first age before Arkat arrived. And in the GodTime there was nothing but HeroQuesting!! (in loose sense).

        Arkat did discover many things about it. I figure that what Arkat discovered was something like this 

	Many cults have similar powerful rituals.
	These rituals work in similar ways.
	You go to the same place.
	These rituals can interact (by experimentation/observation).
	Once you know enough about the myth, including variations (from other
	religions myths) then you can improvise, and gain different powers,
	effectively changing mythology for you, and later your followers.
	This was a discovery over many years, he probably did not have a good
understanding until at least his conversion to Humakti, maybe even not till after he became a troll. But he learnt things noone else knew. I strongly believe that the highest level of HeroQuesting, changing the story, is the basis of Godlearning, but Arkat was to wise to meddle, and even tried to get his followers to block acess to parts of the HeroPlane (perhaps because he forsaw the Godlearners). Basically, I think that Arkat came close to developing the RuneQuest Sight, but that his struggle with Gbaji had taught him many subtle moral truths that were lost on the GodLearners, who wanted only knowledge and power.

        This has turned out to be a bit more speculative and metaphysical than I intended, but I figure no one will mind.

                                                Dave Cake

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