Fourth Age Past Lives

[Thalia]

As I understand it the life that “earns” the status of Hero would be the appearance they take when called. For example - Claude would be Leonidas if called by the horn.

Also I don’t think death is a requirement to become a hero of the horn, but it is a requirement to be called when it blows. If the horn was blown now, Leonidas wouldn’t pop in because Claude is alive. I know how hard it would be to kill your muse - so he can become one without self-sacrifice.

That's kind of what I assumed too. But now I've sat and read about it and thought about it too much lol. 

I think it's also possible that how they appear when they're called by the Horn is just their last life, not one specific life. The fact they are recognisable as heroes who people in that Age actually recognise suggests they are more recent incarnations (or at least the most famous lives within living memory). Say the Horn is blown now - no one would know or care who the hell Artur Hawkwing was. But if he presented as King Arthur we would.

Are HotH born into every Age? Potentially numerous times? For them to be recognised as Heroes when the Horn is blown, must they have had a life recognisable as a hero people in that Age would recognise? Even if not necessarily the last life, but one famous enough to be recognised in that specific Age I mean.

Birgitte seemed to remember bits and pieces from a multitude of lives as far back as the AoL. She seemed to get spun out a lot, not just once or less per Age.

I don't know that this actually matters for FA, just curious now we're discussing it.