[Glorantha] Arkati Guardians and Shargash

[Peter Metcalfe]

Jane Williams:

> > My guess is that these guardians are actually Arkat himself and
> > that he guards the obvious links/exploits between Brithini, Hrestoli,
> > Ralian, Orlanthi/Humakti and Troll heropaths because he is still
> > there trying to take advantage of them.

>Interesting idea - I like it. It doesn't quite fit how I wanted to use the
>Guardians in my game, but I bet I can massage it into shape.

If you are worried about the power level of the Guardians, then
that can easily be massaged by saying that Arkat casts many
shadows in the heroplanes.

>So we can potentially find these Guardians on any heropath from the
>mythologies of Brithini, Hrestoli, Ralian, Orlanthi/Humakti and Troll. I
>know very little about the Western side of things myself, but what I'd like
>to do is somehow link Alkoth and the Shargashi in there. Is that an option,
>do you think?

There always is a significant linkage with Shargash in any mythology.
He just hasn't been mentioned at all in the western mythology.

A significant linkage springs to mind (Arkat getting tossed into a
Dara Happan Hell) but that linkage is unlikely to have a guardian
as it wasn't a heroquest by Arkat.

I do wonder if the westerners identify Shargash with Dadamus who
is said to have sacrificed his soul (or simply shared it around) to
gain dominion over the creatures of Darkness (Revealed Mythologies
p20).

A more mundane possibility is that Horal in his test of weapons
has to fight off an aspect of Shargash.

--Peter Metcalfe

When Horal is defeating everybody in the test of weapons, one
of his foes ought to be Shargash.