Pretty much every cult who Arkat interacted with as an initiate or associate accepts that Arkat certainly was telling the truth about what he did and experienced on the Hero Plane. Their critique is almost always what Arkat did with that knowledge.
So if we look at these folk we get:
Brithini – for them Arkat left them and died. He started from their point but once he renounced the Horali caste restrictions, they renounced him (for their own survival).
Hrestoli – Arkat joined them and took what he had learned as a Horali and became their greatest champion and leader. But when initiated himself into the barbarian Humakt cult, they were greatly disturbed (although thousands still followed him). When he then became a non-human monster and initiated himself into the evil Zorak Zoran cult, that became too much even for them. Still Arkat showed them the possibilities of vaster knowledge that later influenced the God Learners.
Orlanthi – Arkat was rescued in Hell by the greatest Lightbringer heroquester, and Harmast knew him well, even if he was ultimately disappointed and disturbed by Arkat’s deeds and actions. Arkat initiated himself into the Humakt cult and became the greatest Sword of Humakt (and was widely recognised as the Son of Humakt). But Arkat left Humakt and was reborn as a mistress race troll and joined Zorak Zoran, the cruel war god of the Second Council, to go into Dorastor itself. Thousands of Orlanthi and Storm Bulls followed Arkat still and went on to conquer Dara Happa, and were angered that Arkat gave the best rewards and tribute to his new troll kin.
Trolls – Arkat proved he was actually always a mistress race troll and defeated all those who challenged him. He defeated Gbaji and avenged trolldom for the Curse of Kin. Don’t tell me anything bad about Arkat Kingtroll.
None of these people claim that Arkat’s heroquesting truths were false – to the contrary they know that Arkat had incredibly deep knowledge and understanding of the Hero Plane itself. What he did with that knowledge is what they hate – Arkat had a tendency to show his new allies the secrets he learned from his old allies and then build on that. So from a Brithini base, he got Hrestoli insight, then Lightbringer myths, and finally troll secrets of the Darkness. Arkat wasn’t faking what he knew or did – but it each time he joined a new cult he betrayed the secrets of all his past associates (who were usually enemies of his previous associates).
Now Arkat is gone. His presence in the Hero Plane is walled off (presumably by God Learners) and we can’t experience him directly despite his apotheosis in 500. When his Dark Empire was destroyed, the God Learners made sure that he could not be directly contacted anymore, and his surviving followers fled underground trying to hold onto and transmit the intellectual knowledge that Arkat had about the Hero Plane, heroquesting, and about his own purpose and role in the cosmos. After nine centuries that stuff got pretty weird. It is called the Stygian Heresy by the Malkioni, because it says all sorts of things that contradict reason and humanism. The Orlanthi of Ralios distrust it because it is Arkat, and Arkat betrayed their secrets to the trolls – but that’s treason and oath-breaking not heresy. And the trolls of Guhan are totally fine with it.
Now in Peloria, Arkat never taught anyone anything. He just brought the results of his quests – armies, war, death, and darkness. They hate him and might well say he was a liar, especially what he said about beloved Nysalor. He was a terrible ruthless fanatic who was worse than Sheng Seleris. But that’s all based on what Arkat and his allies did to them – Arkat never participated with Yelm or Yelmalio, etc, except as an adversary.
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