King Heort and Great Darkness, Silver Age
King Heort and Lightbringer's Quest
We know annually each Heortling clans reenact the small Lightbringer's
Quest in each of Sacred Time since the time of Harmast the Barefoot, it
takes only week (Thunder Rebels p.116-117). While in the discription of
King of Sartar, Kallyr Starbrow seems to have needed whole of Sacred Time
(2 Weeks) for LBQ. And for the Full-Scale Hero Quest that Argrath commited
in his Saga, I think it needed more than whole of One Year.
Wyrm's Footprint p. 75 The World of Time
History in Glorantha is the sum of events occurring since Time began. Mythical
events prior to Time were non-sequential and simultaneous actions happening
without the benefit of orderly lineal time. (snip)
Greg loves to write about Heortling Myth (See King of Sartar and Thunder
Rebels) and Heort has been portraited as a demigod rather than mere a mortal.
On the contrary, Jeff (See Enclosure #1) likes to write about Legend of
them, and Heortling always insists "There was a change in the Cosmic
Compromise." Greg told how Gods and Humans walking together in God
Age, but Jeff wrote about "How LBQ was invented" by the Bloodline
of Berenethtelli, can there be any solution? (Greg said, there is an Ultimate
Reality even in Mythical Age, but it is beyond the comprehension of mortality
and humanity.)
Anyway, below is my humble idea about Heort's age, when Cosmic Compromise
occurred... Just the time when Divine World and Mundane World was divided.
(IMHO, Heort used the Vingkot Ritual of Founding Great united Kingdom to
four Directions, that was also used by Argrath in the End of his Saga.)
Last Loyal Betrayal - Orlanth entered Dusk Gate
Hidden Kings Saga - Unity Battle?
I fought, we won. - Eurmal betrayed Orlanth
Jarani's Staff - Unity Battle? - Orlanth found his Inner Spark
Heort enthroned as Highking - Arachne Solara ate Kajabor
Heort's peaceful reign - Silver Age - Return of Orlanth
| Gods Plane | Mundane World |
| Orlanth and Elmal exchanged their shield | Battle of Falling Storm (Uz Lore & King of Sartar) |
| Destruction of Mastakos Chariot | Tragedy of King Erraath |
| Westafaring and Battle in Luathela | Orlanth called Ring of his in Luathela |
| Orlanth descended to Hell | Glory of King Rastagar, Last Royal Betrayal |
| Betrayal of Eurmal | Hidden Kings Saga, I fought, we won. |
| Orlanth found his Inner Spark | Heort found the Lawstaff of Jarani |
| Restoration | Heort disappeared, Elmal lost his Fire |
| Three Trials | Heort reenacted the Vingkot Ritual |
| Orlanth met Yelm the King of Maggot | Unity Battle of Heort and Only Old One |
| Redemption | Heort made contract with Only Old One |
| Arachne Solara devoured Kajabor | Heort enthroned as Highking of Vingkotling |
| Peace of All People | Peaceful Reign of Highking |
| Return of Voria | End of Winter Deer Clan |
| First Dawn | The Theyalan World Council of Friends |
Empire of Wyrm's Friend and The Three Brothers Divided the World
Below is my struggle from the Greg Stafford's Unfinished and Still Forbidden to Non GTA member Archive of the Second Age, (Such condition indicates it is still strictly under the unsettled status of Greg's concept of EWF mysticism and its history.) and my theory of it is sometimes intentionally out of its mainframe and self sufficient for the Mystical Association of EWF's Utuma and Alakoring, As you know.
| Carmania | Saird | Dara Happa | |
| -900 | 864 Samandar was born in Arir | 824 Balarzak Leatherwing tried to explore the Land of Doom, Drastor |
Dragon Sun Reign 878-910 |
| 900-920 | Shah Samandar 901-912 Half Brother of Dragonslayer Survilster (Death by DH Rebellion) |
(Two Year Winter of Dragonpass 907 Godlearner Attack?) (907-917 Battle of Machine City in the God Forgot) 910 Alakoring came to Kingdom of Aggar (Windless Typhoon of DP917) |
The Hero-Emperor Karvanyar Reign 910-945 910-913 Alliance with Carmania War Gods of West+* |
| 920-940 | 913-955 Nadar the Avenger Invaded to Loskalm |
920 Three Armies Battle of Alakoring, Survilster and Drang the Diamond Storm Hachrat Blowhard destroyed EWF archives and Dara Happan cities |
925-945 Pentan Nomad Invasion |
| 940-960 | Nadar died in Senility without offspring 955 Dara Happan Regency |
940? Death of Alakoring by Tobosta Greenbow |
Emperor Sarenish 946-960 |
| 960- | "Three Brothers divided the World" Heroic King Verenmars (Madasharesh Paraham Verenmars 960-991), made peace with Bast People of Vanch and Imther, and befriended with Alakorings with the title of Successor of Vingkot and Alakoring++* |
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+* I think by the Succession of Nadar the Avenger, he retreated to the
futile struggle against Dragonspawns of South and concentrated with the
collapse of Godlearner Influence in the West, maybe Karmangs met EWF remnants
of Fronela or not while they went forward to the Loskalm.
++*Though Joerg Baumgartner thinks that Alakoring used the Magic of Odayla
the Bear for conquering the People of Saird and Beast Worshippers, I think
it was used by his successor, Verenmars the Great.
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