SPOILER: This post has info from the GURPS Myth book. If you don't want the book to be spoiled just a little, then don't read it. If you do have the book, then read on.
I really hate to bring this back up now, since we've all decided the truth about it hundreds of times already, but with my new insights from GURPS I have to bring it back up.
And keep reading after this even if the next line makes you sick :)
THE DECEIVER IS NOT DEAD!!!
I can just hear all of you now groaning. Believe me, I thought this out a lot before typing.
DISCLAIMER: The guy who wrote the GURPS Myth book (Gene Seabolt) may have been wrong in a few things, but I'm just going to assume this one to be good.
Now to the real good stuff.
In the Archmage section of the GURPS book, Mr. Seabolt made many statements that would indicate that the D is not dead. In the description of the Voiceless one (note that all of the stuff from the book is assumed to be one year after SB's defeat) in that section, a heron tells alric that the D called shiver Ravanna. The direct quote following this is: "But the Deceiver has remained true to form and enlightened no one." Now that really doesn't seem to me like a good description of what the D's doing if he's dead. A dead guy would not enlighten anyone, but that is not the right description. Did alric ask the pile of gore why he called shiver Ravanna (there's another story behind this part, so just bear with me). There are many more indications that the D is dead, including the part where Seabolt says that "Of the original seven Fallen Lords, one now thrives, having returned to service with the Light." That seven includes Balor, but if the D is dead, than why is he thriving in service of light? And the other major one is in the D's description, and Shiver's description, it says absolutely nothing of the D getting obliterated by a massive explosion.
Hmmmm...
So why did we see his body parts go flying across shiver's campground? It sure looked like he was dead to me.
Because, dear watson, the sidebar in the book near Mazzarin's description says that many archmages (avatara, fallen lords, and others) have "extra lives." While this seems much like a cheesy arcade game concept, this sidebar says that many powerful archmages eventually learn to cheat death. In game terms, they can get the Extra lives special ability (which functions just like those old arcade games) after a while to represent their ability to find loopholes in the rules of the universe and cheat their way out of death.
It says that the D did this to survive in the Dramus. He brought up some obscure rule or something when going into the afterlife and managed to get the gods to send him back. Sounds wierd to me.
Um, so if you all get the book soon, what do you all think?
