So... Took me long enough to realize this, didn't it? After all, "Your Glorantha May/Will Vary" has always been one of the biggest slogans. I should have seen it coming.
But see, when Jeff Richard came along saying what is (Guide to Glorantha, King of Sartar...) and most definitely isn't (Glorantha the Second Age) canon, well... I believed him. Yeah, I know. Silly me. I still don't really know why he would want to fool me like that, but hey, maybe it's his way of opening the third eye. Wouldn't surprise me.
It started days ago, when I realized that taking this at face value meant that perfectly fine work by Lawrence Whitaker would never be canon, even when not contradicting anything in the Guide or the Stafford Library, but that something so absurd as King of Sartar's central conceit (namely, that it was compiled in the Fourth Age by some dude named Greg Friggin' Stafford) is. Huh, wasn't that kind of weird? Not to mention that the unrealibility of surviving records was one of the aforementioned book's main themes. Funny that.
But that wasn't the main revelation, no sir. That just happened, when I saw this gem in the Rough Guide to Glamour's drivethrurpg page: "I'd say the Guide to Glamour is about 95% how I [Jeff Richard] view it. And as all RQ players know, a roll of 96-00 is always a failure. As opposed to something like the Imperial Lunar Handbook books [for HeroQuest] which were closer to 25%. And as all RQ players know, don't go into combat with a 25% skill."
So... are you telling me that the book in which the oh-so-much Bronze Age Glorantha has a city with a modern-day style tourism industry, Moonson is a constipated Elvis and people talk like the inhabitants of 1984's Oceania is more canon that something, I don't know... not preposterous, like the Imperial Lunar Handbook?
That can't be true. That isn't true.
So, the canon isn't true. The canon isn't real.
Like the end of the wonderful Six Seasons in Sartar's Rites of Passage reveals, in the end it's all just masks and the Void. That's the real truth. And I've become Illuminated.