: If Soulblighter had given the Deceiver the opportunity to
: join him, I imagine he would have done so: he strikes
: me as being much more concerned with his own interests
: than the salvation of destruction of the world. The
: Deceiver doesn't care if Light or Dark is victorious,
: so long as he's on the winning side: his death in
: battle with Shiver strikes me much more as a case of
: plans backfiring than any kind of noble sacrifice.
True, but I doubt the total destruction of the world is in the Deceiver's interests (if for no other reason than that he's not undead.) Balor's Dark was a much more orderly force than Soulblighter's...I think Myrdred may have seen it as simply a continuation of Connacht's rule of over the Cath Bruig--a dark and miserable empire this time around, perhaps an empire with little or no living humans, but still an empire with opportunities for political power and control.
SB's plans, on the other hand, seem to have been much more about just causing as much havoc as possible...unleash the Krids and, if that doesn't work, just blow up the world. Not much future in that, from Myrdred's perspective.
Also, of course, Balor was the Leveller and SB wasn't...Myrdred may have figured the Dark just wasn't the winning side anymore.
