: Indeed, welcome to the CJIC. Hell is to your right.
: Martel, don't take this as a personal insult but there is
: no way in heck that our journal writer could be an
: avatara
: Quote: "I was one the men chosen to hold the Gjol
: against Soulblighter"
: I think there are others so I'm going to check and post a
: full list later today. But that one's a biggy, I mean
: an avatara would not be "chosen" since even
: a low power avatara would be probably a high ranking
: member of the Legion.
: Of course, this is the ayslum, so please post your
: reasons for it, and I'll put my reasons against and we
: will both wind up knowing more then when we started.
: Personally I think the JW (Journal Writer) is a Warrior,
: perhaps somewhere between a regular Warrior and a
: Warrior Captain in authority.
: Six Wolf Seraph (Heron Guard Legend)
: "...at Bagrada his twin swords flashed like bolts of
: lightning as he fought his way through the ranks of
: the enemy...even the Thrall hestiated as he hacked
: apart their ranks..."
: Heron Guard Legend Flavor Text.
Well, although the word "chosen" might not be used, I suspect that Alric might well send an avatara as a taskforce commander to oversee important missions like the defence of the Gjol.
Now, reasons in favour:
1) He speaks to Murgen inside the Tain, and seems to be talking to him on roughly equal terms, even out-wising him on one occasion ("I asked him if doing so would also set free everything else which had ever been imprisoned in the Tain, but got no response.") And while Murgen seems to know more about the Tain than the Journal Writer does, this is hardly surprising: Murgen was the most magically proficient of the Nine, and it's unlikely that anyone who wasn't a Fallen Lord knew more about the Tain than he did.
2) He thinks he knows better than the wise and ancient Jmen.
3) Myth 3 states that there were three Avatara in the Tain.
4) He's often dispatched as the leader of absolutely vital taskforces, and therefore is almost certainly in a position of vast trust and responsibility in the Legion hierarchy (of course, I'm assuming here that the Journal Writer and the player are usually the same person).
5) We never see a specific "Journal Writer" unit. He obviously has a dream of invisibility. (just kidding! More likely he's operating behing the scenes. Except for Rabican, and, to a lesser extent, Alric, the Avatara don't seem to really go for a hands-on approach.)
6) "Which makes them something like the Three now." Alric, Durak and the Journal Writer, presumably, assuming he isn't counting Maeldun, who was crippled, dying, and of absolutely no use as an Avatara at the time.
That's all I can think of for the moment. If I think of any more, I'll tell you.
