Consecutive readers of the Technic History should regard van Rijn in this same light. Previous instalments featuring van Rijn are building blocks of a legend that will become a myth:
"Margin of Profit"
The Man Who Counts
"Esau"
"Hiding Place"
"Territory"
"The Master Key"
Satan's World
"Lodestar"
They are not necessarily historically accurate but might already be building the myth:
"Margin of Profit" is a chapter in AA Craig's Tales Of The Great Frontier;
The Man Who Counts is a historical novel of uncertain provenance;
"Esau" was a story published in the Avalonian periodical, Morgana;
Hloch and Arinnian composed "Lodestar" from several sources for The Earth Book Of Stormgate;
we are less certain of the origins of the remaining four narratives.
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Kaor, Paul!
And we see Polesotechnarch van Rijn mentioned centuries later on Unan Besar as the hero of folk tales in THE PLAGUE OF MASTERS. And the preface to "The Star Plunderer" stated that Manuel Argos, Founder of the Terran Empire, was already a legend during his lifetime.
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Ad astra! Sean
Legend and myth attach to people who are archetypes. For that matter, simply lasting a long time can do it -- witness Octavian, the first Augustus. By the time he died, virtually nobody actually remembered the Republic, and Octavian had maintained internal peace and rounded out the Empire successfully -- albeit with the Varus disaster.
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