Ok, this is a subject that has bothered me since I ever looked at the Asylum or rapancy.net or UMS or saw anything else like this. "Leveler" is used in Myth everywhere only, in the game. "Leveller" is used in GURPS. Both are used to describe the "trasient divinity" which posesses people to attempt to herald a new age of Dark, leveling the world, by we Myth scholars.
Leveller = one who "levels" the proverbial playing field, making people equal; a promoter of equality.
Leveler = one who destroys and razes something, especially civilizations or social orders (such as the Huns).
Now, before you start biting my head off, I should clarify: The above definitions are the PREFERRED definitions; they are the ones used to describe the things I presesented USUALLY (or rather, almost always). Now, they can be interchangable, but this, for all intesive purposes, is not correct.
Now! I'm not critisizing you people! That's not what I intend to accomplish at all. GURPS made a slight mistake, and that partial error was carried by the readers of the book.
If you'd like a brief history of why there are two different words with different spellings and meanings, please read on.
During the English Civil War in 1598, there were many groups of radicals advocating equality and religious toleration; that the barriers of political, social, and economical inequalities should be "leveled." These people called themselves "levelers." Unfortunately, when the news was printed in the media, the word was mispelled and written "leveller." From then on, the term "leveller" has always been meant as a reference to one of the equality radicals of the English Civil War or to anyone with similar action that they take. "Leveler" can mean both of barrier-breaking and Myth's destroyer concept, but "leveller" only means the one thing and NOT EVER a destroyer.
In conclusion, I'm not going to make anyone change how they might like to spell something, but this is the truth of the history. I would like to appeal towards the general correction of the spelling, but I will not force it. This is the info.; do with it what you please.
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