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Alric and the Deceiver *PIC*

Posted By: Archer »–)› (40-30.tnt-1.allentown.supernet.com)
Date: 8/15/2001 at 3:45 p.m.

From the moment King Alric suggested finding The Deceiver out of the blue, we were certain that something strange was happening between the two. Why would it be that Alric would just call on him for seemingly no reason; why had he not sought out Dec before this; why did The Deceiver, a former Fallen Lord, break away from anything Dark so quickly and easily?

All these questions ran through our mind at one time or another. What is this indubitable connection between these heroic Avatara separated by a full Age of Light?

With marius.net up, I rebegan my interest in TFL (I'm beginning to appreciate the fir'Bolg much more). Today, I played "Shadow of the Mountain" on Legendary, planning to destroy all but my Archers to work on my TFL archery. I was about to skip the intro, until I heard the Narrator's voice. It was very nostaligic to hear him tell the tale of a time long past…he sounds very different from Myth II, as if he's older and more battle-worn.
In any case, I saw the Watcher had broken through Rabican’s force, crashing through the melting pass at Seven Gates, pluging towards The Deceiver.

The Deceiver…::cue “Beyond the Cloudspine” music::… He was the one who had just recently crushed the Eastern Army, after it was sent through the Cloudspine before the mountain passes had closed for the winter (unless a World Knot did it)…under the command of Alric. Alric was captured by The Deceiver once the Eastern Army had been routed. Alric was taken prisoner, interrogated by Balor (and most likely The Deceiver as well), and chained up in a magical spell with four emitters restrainging him…rather out in the open, and no where near The Deceiver’s protection. Once Alric had been rescued by the Five Companions, they escaped.

There are a dozen eerie and suggestive incidents after that, of which I cannot give benefit to the contributers, but merely go on memory, in no particular order:
•The Head sent Alric to the East, to fall right into The Deceiver’s trap.
•The Deceiver found the Watcher’s arm, yet left it out in the open for the Legionaries to grab it.
•Alric and The Deceiver become very fast allies in Myth II, as if it were a planned event.
•Dec left Alric way out in the open to be rescued.
•(I forgot the rest)
Please feel free to add to this list, since I’ve lost my concentration and can’t think of any more.

I theorize that The Deceiver, hating his bent to the Fallen Lords and perhaps longing to remove himself from the evil that had taken over him (or just tired of being ordered around), he desired to leave the ranks of the Fallen and somehow remove himself from the Dark. He wanted to kill Balor, but knew that was impossible on his own. So, he bound or had bound some person to his will before or after his head was cut off. This Head was left in the Barrier, and somehow The Nine got wind of it. They took it into proper custody, it saying it was one of the Avatara of Connacht (Myrdred). I believe The Deceiver was speaking through The Head, as Sili once theorized, trying to convince The Light to do however Dec wished, so he could reach his ultimate goal, or at least have Balor lose (breaking the Cycle, rather than having a Dark Age for a thousand years under the constant command of Balor (I also believe that Myrdred was upset somewhat when he lost control of the Avatara and a large portion of power to Connacht when he took over, disliking he was now commanded and ordered around by Connacht)).
Through The Head, The Deceiver convinced Alric to go to the Eastern Army to search for the suit of invincible armor (which Balor wears by the time of The Last Battle, supposédly), perhaps to get it away from Balor and have Alric defeat the Dark. When something goes awry, or mb this was the plan all along, The Deceiver has to capture Alric and his army, bringing some of his soldiers under his Binding Dream, which we face in Shadow of the Mountain. In any case, either The Deceiver had actually bound Alric to him when Alric was captured, or The Deceiver strikes a private deal with him wherein The Deceiver helps to defeat the Dark, thereby freeing himself (or perhaps his plan was to simply fake death all along and wait another hundred years…but then Soulblighter showed up early…).

I believe that Alric and the Deceiver both were in cahoots with one another. Neither was especially Dark or Light. They both had their own ulterior motives, just as in The Black Company.
The Deceiver secretly wanted to have all the Dark destroyed, including his former (unkind) master, Connacht, as well as get back at Shiver for whatever bitchy thing she did in the Wolf Age to Myrdred, killing the ass of a Watcher…and I can’t think of anything that he might have had against Soulblighter or Damas, except that he might have been a jerk when Myrdred was demoted to third class after Damas and that Myrdred wasn’t even Connacht’s proverbial bitch…much a Fallen soap opera this is.
Alric secretly wanted to kill all opposition to his throne he planned to have at Madrigal, to become unrivaled master of the West. He knew his destiny, and had lived in such a shadow as that of his father, Caliban, the unifier of the fir’Bolg and Humans. His leadership of The Nine of the Sword Age was merely titular, as he was the heir to the throne, but nothing more (certainly not a very powerful magician). Therefore, when the war ended, he had another eight archmages, most more powerful than he, each with an army, each with a powerful following of people in debt to them, all ready to rival for the throne of the Province. He wanted them dead, without question, and The Deceiver was the guy to make it happen. A “civil war” happened back west where many defended the head and others tried to destroy it. Two of the Nine were killed, leaving only Alric and his two lieutenant, unnamed Avatara (which were easily delt with before Alric was done).

In the end, Alric and The Deceiver left everyone but themselves and Soulblighter alive (for Soulblighter had fled and was planning his revenge and continuation to end the Age of Light and make it the Dark Sword Age). That’s a lot of people, eight Light archmages plus five Dark archmages, bringing it to a grand total of thirteen archrivals dead, no opposition for another sixty years. I certainly call that a success when deals are made behind enemy lines.

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