Let me say first and foremost that I don't have GURPS Myth. However, in looking over the Myth II journal entries, the Myth II manual and comparing it with what happened in Myth I, I am decidedly confused. Let's start off with a few quotes.
"Deceiver, The
One of the Fallen Lords who served Balor during the Great War. His rivalry with the other Fallen Lords led to his downfall. He disappeared after the Watcher decimated his army at Seven Gates."
--Myth II manual.
"The King has sent word to Twelve Motion Jeweled Skull, a Journeyman who served under him during his campaigns east of the Cloudspine, in hopes that he has some knowledge of what became of The Deceiver after Balor's destruction."
--Myth II journal entry, "Through the Ermine."
"Twelve Motion Jeweled Skull says he was last here [at the Stair of Grief] sixty years ago, fighting alongside the likes of Durak and Turgeis with Burning Steel. They caught The Deceiver and the remnants of his army in this very defile and here destroyed them."
--Myth II journal entry, "The Stair of Grief."
Is it just me or do these contradict each other (or present a completely ludicrous image?) It is evidently common belief that the Deceiver disappeared after Seven Gates and was never seen again. Alric himself didn't know what became of him. Yet a Journeyman, and one of Alric's friends at that, was there when a large army defeated him in the mopping-up phase of the Great War! Even assuming this army was not led by Alric (which is dubious), are they asking us to believe that nobody bothered to tell Alric about it?! Furthermore, Alric just *happened* to guess that Twelve Motion Jeweled Skull *might* know something about where the Deceiver is? I'm not even going to start about how utterly stupid it was not to make sure that one of the West's most powerful and resilient enemies was dead (or for that matter, to finish him off,) when (Myth II asks us to believe) all it would have taken was a couple of days of searching up in the Stair of Grief.
There's more, however...
"I asked Twelve Motion why King Alric believes The Deceiver will throw in with our lot. He explained how The Deceiver has been frozen in a half-death beneath the river, clinging to life through sorcery alone, with no power left to free himself. The King believes that if we were to revive him and return the scepter, the focus of his power, he would no doubt join our cause."
--Myth II journal entry, "The Stair of Grief"
This journal entry implies amazing cognitive powers from both Alric and Twelve Motion Jeweled Skull. Suddenly Twelve Motion knows exactly what happened to the Deceiver, that he has been frozen half-alive in the river. Alric seems suddenly to know that the Deceiver has been separated from his sceptre. Alric, who hadn't the foggiest clue of what became of the Deceiver after Seven Gates, now has an excellent idea of what happened to him--without hearing from Twelve Motion in any way!
I actually don't think GURPS Myth can explain this all away, though if there is some reference in there about how Alric had a very odd memory, please let me know. If there is not, I welcome plausible theories as to these amazing acts of both ignorance and ESP. It would certainly put my mind at ease...
Thanks,
Wasp
