Quick copy & paste of an email correspondance I just had...
>The 4min GreatDevoidSpace&TimeWarpTheory
>
>Reading over the arguments for & against the "Balor is the Head" idea, I was
>suprised to find one idea unexplored. Balor's head gets thrown into the Great
>Devoid. What then? If the The Great Devoid "is a chasm near Myrgard that is
>said to have no bottom," (see glossary in the Myth manual) then what difference
>would it make if Balor's head its eternally falling or sitting around anywhere
>else? No, throwing Balor's head into The Great Devoid obviously had a more explosive
>effect than an eternaly falling head. I only have 4 min left before this lab
>is closed so I'm only working from memory of what the Great Devoid really might
>be ('cause "SAID to have no bottom" don't make it so), but I invite anyone who's
>interested to verify/disprove this idea:
>
>The Great Devoid, being a ditortion of reality, launched Balor/The Leveler's
>living head out of normal reality. Where did it end up? Well burried in a mountain
>is as likely a place as any...
>
>The Possible implications of this:
>1-The head was sent back in time and is really Balor AFTER he was sepparated
>from his body. Now he's trying to influence events so that he isn't defeated
>after all (obviously he didn't read his Douglas Adams ;). This would explain
>how his head can be in two places at once.
>2-Being a manifestation of The Leveler, Balor's head, when thrown into a pit
>of who-the-heck-knows-what does increadibly weird and bizzar things to time
>and space that only the guys at Bungie could dream up. The result? The creation
>of the Great Cycle itself...
>
>Well, my time's up boys an girls. Not bad for 4min, eh?
>Gwaihir [A. Sportack]
Interesting... throwing the head into the Devoid to stop the cycle (which apparently worked - this is supposed to be a Dark age, though despite the 50-years Great War and Soulblighter's return it's been more light than dark) could be what started the cycle in the first place. Which could explain why the Head seems to know something about everything; it's been through it all before.
I'll post this theory to the Asylum, so people can discuss it more before I post it.
