We all saw The Deciever bite the dust in Shiver but do you really buy it? It doesn't even let you try to get Myrdred away from Shiver's death/spite magics but The Deciever wouldn't just stand there. I've heard a theories that maybe he was revelling in the glory of a vanquished foe or didn't know the magics were anything but special effects, well… those are pretty good but it doesn't seem right. I think The Deciever's a bit more logical than sitting under the death shower to see what happens because in "The Deciever" after you revive him he doesn't say "Why are you berserks helping me?" instea he gets the @#$% out of there preferring not to find out what all those mauls will do with him. To the reflecting on Shiver's death thing, he could do that just as easily 20 feet away so he should've moved first. The for those of us that play with loathing you can go into "Shiver" and change it so The Deciever can be ordered to run but it doesn't help, he's just too slow. I propose this, Phelot, The Deciever, or Seanchade (or whatever the warlock heroes name is) cast an illusion to hide The Deciever while he got away using some of that unnatural speed the warlock mentioned in the briefing for the previouse mission, "The Wall", or maybe teleported away. Assuming that Shiver's death spell also occured when Rabican killed her than someone would have known about it since then and thought it was fairly close to the end of the Great War Myrdred probably would have still had time to find out about it. Perhaps Phelot was spying on Shiver in those days as well as durring Soulblighter's War in which case he should've known about it for sure. If Phelot didn't know that his bald master would be ok then why would he have just floated off? Finally if The Deciever was killed where was his wand? It wouldn't have been that hard for the good people of Bungie to make it go flying along with his body parts.
Under the assumption that The Source of the 500 Poisons is alive (and I think I just proved that it's more likely that he is than that he isn't) then he still has Soulblighter's crow (captured in "A Murder of Crows"). GURPS Myth says that he killed the thing but it also said that fetch get 1 dice roll of damage for every 5 min. that they spend in the light, that Mazzarin was killed by The Watcher but many doubt death can hold a grip on such a man. Mazzarin was killed by the Watcher but his shade turned up in the mission "The Watcher" in TFL so GURPS could stand to do more research. Now where was I before my GURPS bashing?… Oh yes, I was ranting about the crow. In the briefing for "The Wall" it calls the crow "tortured" and "mangled" and their is a picture of The Deciever terrorizing it. The way it was shrieking in pain in that picture it seemed unlikely that the crow was dead. Now lets make another assumption, lets pretend that we know for a fact that the crow is alive and… na I can't really say "well" after seeing that picture so we'll just say that the crow is alive and leave it at that. The Deciever would put such an item to use but given the chance the crow would return to Soulblighter so it would need to be bound to Myrdred's will. Balor bound the fallen lords to his will but probably had mastered Binding Dream better than The Deciever because we saw in "The Relic" that The Deciever is unable to bind the myrkridian giant making the idea of binding a Fallen Lord laughable. I'd say he used torture to wear Soulblighter (or whatever fraction of his mind was in the crow) down and then with the despair caused by the death of Soulblighter's body in "The Forge" and the logic that Soulblighter was bound to Balor's will and he outlived that master to convince the crow to let The Deciever bind him to his will instead of being tortured and eventually killed. It's concievable that any defenses against Binding Dream that Soulblighter had were temporarely negated in crow form because they couldn't cover more than one person and their were many crows to his were-form. Maybe he couldn't maintane control of such defenses when his body died and The Deciever was waiting patiently and mutilating the crow for fun in the mean time. The binding of that single crow would explain the opening graphics for Myth II because if Soulblighter could've, than he probably would have just flown in and killed Alric in his sleep, he's rutheless like that. Myrdred is the guy I'd expect to plant a nightmare to soften Alric up mentally and he would send the crow if it needed to be done at close range. Doing it that way would also give the added bonus of scaring the bejeebes out of Alric who was obviously startled by seeing the crow that he might of expected had he not recently killed Soulblighter. I'm sure I've got more evidence that has recently slipped my mind and some corrections on details in quotes and I may or may not get around to posting them.
-Skullfinder
