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The faceless nameless hero

Posted By: Kevin (ip68-100-187-93.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: 10/15/2005 at 9:40 p.m.

Never did we ever say that Bungie has to have the story straight. We can assume the journal and epilogue was written by the same person, but that doesn't necessarily make it true. Writen word, especially during chaos, gets shuffled together and sometimes you have several papers from writen by different hands put together and assumed to be one person's. What helps confuse us is the fact that the narrator's voice is the same all the time. That simply means the person reading it back is the same.

My first theory (the one I like least) is that several different people wrote the journal. During the chaos before the end of Balor, the writing ended up being compiled and the author with no time to sort through who's hand wrote what... simply threw it all together to try to preserve an account of the facts.

To back this, the author cannot be any one unit type in the entire Myth series. Of the units left behind "out of boredom" none are journeymen and several times he is discovering things that journeymen would know more about. Occassionally saying things to the effect of "our healers" not pointing out that he is one of them. But then I use the same argument to say it could not be an archer for he would have said "our captain" or "my captain" instead of "captain of archers" because he would belong to the archers and would not refer to them in third person. A lot of the writing points to a warrior (perhaps a venerable one) but in some of the missions warriors are not present but the author is. To this I would like to conclude that an archer is the author but even there, I believe that because he doesn't count himself as one, he is not one.

My second theory and the one I like better is that Bungie is inconsistent and hasty. The author was meant to be a warrior but because of level design and gameplay it turned out that in some cases warriors were not present in all the levels that the author was meant to be in. Perhaps the author was meant to be a journeyman instead... whichever it was meant to be, I believe they did not want to make a character named "the journal writer" because knowing us gamers we would either try to get him killed or we would work too hard to keep him alive and it would be another goal in the game for us to accomplish. Yet for the end game, it was totally unnecessary.

And then... in Myth II, they decided... "Look, we have a cult following of this so-called Journal Writer... let's keep them in the dark!" and continued to make it difficult to find out who he really was.

I don't really like the result of that theory but it's the one I believe in.

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