Greg's revisionism
Many people have mentioned the revisionist history of the origins of
Yelmalio. I will point out another example (there are hundreds, I'm sure.)
In the Genertela Book, set in 1621, Moirades is listed as King of Tarsh.
In King of Sartar, pages 119 & 127, Moirades is said to die in 1610 and to
be succeeded by his son Pharandros.
This sort of thing is irksome if one is trying to write a scenario set
in Tarsh in the 1610's, for example.
What do people think? Should we take RQ material as canonical for future
submissions? Is Glorantha splitting into two worlds, Greg's rapidly shifting
one and the more permanent RQ Glorantha?
Anyone have any speculation as to why Greg changed his mind on Moirades'
death date? It seems gratuitous. The Elmal/Yelmalio changes make some
sense, but this playing around with death dates of mortals does not seem
'forced' by mythic considerations.
BTW, this is not a simple change that can be smoothed over by saying 'one
of the scribes who wrote the Composite History of Dragon Pass got the date
wrong'; rather, the story of Moirades and Pharandros takes several pages
and is intimately interwoven with much of the history. Thus it is a real
change.
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