Rhygar - a Knight of the White Mountain?

[longhairyuppiescum]

(I did not yet read the new gamebook editions by Mongoose Publishing but scanned the pages of FotW.. didn't even receive FftD yet..)

But threre is one fact from the new FotW edition that made me sad:

The bonus adventure in Mongoose' FotW portrays Lord-lieutenant Rhygar as a Knight of the White Mountain! - Why?

Facts we know from the main adventure (by JD) about Rhygar are:
He is
* "Born of a Sommlending father and a Durenese mother (...)"
* the "envoy of Sommerlund"
(from section 31)
And "(...) he is clothed in the heavy armour of a Sommlending knight."
(from section 299)

This sounds to me like a Sommlending Knight.
I don't see anything that may hint to him being a Durenese Knight of the White Mountain. Instead it seems very unlikely to me that he is.
Apart from the mentioned citations above:
It seems that Knights of the White Mountain are wearing the Royal Arms of Durenor as their symbol and are a very honorable and serious bunch. - Rhygar doesn't seem to wear the White Mountain symbol anywhere..
The Order of the Knights of the White Mountain seems surely nothing to join lightly? - And I would expect some extraordinary background story to be known of him if he was to join the order.
(And we do get that kind of background info of him from section 31.)

Besides, the skills to chose from for Rhygar are adequate for any kind of knight and doesn't seem to especially fit a Knight of the White Mountain. Nor does it seem to matter for the adventure itself or the background of it?

So why is he decribed to be a KotWM at all?
I just don't get it. To me he's a Sommlending Knight!

Maybe there's a list of questions out there to ask JD at his next interview. - I would be interested in hearing an official explanation..

But for now I would like to hear about your opinion on this..

[silentmarmot]

I've not done much research on the subject but I've always considered Rhygar as a Sommlending knight, for all the reasons you stated.
I don't think it's impossible for a sommelding knight to became part of the Knights of the White Mountain, but it must be an honour rarely granted. Even then, Rhygar may have been one. But he certainly would have worn something that stated he was one of them.
The Knight of the White Mountain are the best of Durenor, all of them should wear something (almost always a tabard) that state they're part of it. Rhygar don't : he's not one of them.

[GhostofLandar]

This is why I'm not entirely sure I even trust the reprints as "canon" except what Joe personally wrote. Getting that basic fact wrong tells me that people often don't pay attention to central characters in what they read. And certainly you would expect a writer to go and fact check real quick, it probably wouldn't change the story that much would it?

It's the same feeling I got when reading the Magnamund and Darklands supplements.

"Your Kai senses scream that something is wrong. Suddenly, you realize that the text in the book is not really canon, no matter how much it says "Joe Dever's notes" from cover to cover! You drop the evil tome and hurriedly exit your living room. Turn to 350"