by QorDaq » April 24th, 2016, 1:21 pm
So, of course, I voted Zargon (and established such when I registered with the forum), based purely on the fact that at the time that I discovered HQ (ca. 1990), I had no knowledge of the Warhammer connection. I was already well aware of Games Workshop as a publisher, but mostly from the Citadel minis perspective, and later from the WH40K stuff. I knew about other specialty games like Blood Bowl and so on, but it was not until Warhammer Quest that I started to understand that the game was not just a Milton Bradley fluke...Heh.
Anyway, do I have a point? Well, possibly. In an abstract way I'd argue that as much as any sword and sorcery fantasy setting owes a debt to Tolkien through Dungeons and Dragons, Tolkien frequently referenced how different peoples will have differing names for the same figureheads that appear within their various mythos.
Thus, if we are, by the act of playing games like HQ, effectively retelling mythic tales, even acting them out, we can safely reference the version of a given character within that mythos by the culturally relevant history that we were taught. Literally, in this case, we have direct evidence to support that the characters are one in the same and that-that personality is referred by one name in one area and by another in others. So, because I was initially ONLY aware of the Zargon personification of the EWP, I am comfortable using that name, while recognizing that they are known by (an)other name(s) elsewhere.
In this way neither name particularly stands out above the other to me, but I will say that when I hear/ read the name Morcar I don't automatically translate it to Zargon. Instead I have a brief internal referencing that results in "That's what the rest of the World calls Zargon"... If that makes any sense...*Chuckle*...
I guess this all really amounts to my brain defaulting to Zargon.
Now for the humorous bit... In my D&D campaigns back in the day (early 80s when I DMd a lot), I had a character, an NPC that is, who was of dubious allegiance, but was a frequent contact for my PCs... Sometimes helping, sometimes distracting them, and occasionally (and apparently) betraying them... He was called Grimple Stoutfeller... He was a mage, and the party would never quite know if he was a villain or not, but he always paid well and usually seemed to ultimately work towards the common good.. Though sometimes just barely.
Anyway, I think "Mentor" ended up being called Grimple from the very first game of HQ we played. Even when I did on occasion read directly from the quest text in the book, I'd substitute Mentor for Grimple, and since we would RP our between quest visits to town, I'd occasionally drop clues and hints that would suggest that Zargon might in fact actually be Grimple... heh
maj! = Klingon word for "Good". Used in the context of "I approve".
- vay' DaneHbogh yIchargh!
on this. Take it or leave it, I don't much care.
I never claimed it wasn't a direct rebuttal, of course it was. This is what I posted.
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