: This is exactly what I meant. No Leveller seemed intent
: on actually annihilating the world. Why would they? It
: wouldn't achieve anything if they succeeded and then
: killed themselves in the process.
Well, I'm sure some psycho Dark guys would consider that a worthwhile tradeoff--but the Leveller, apparently, does not. (I tend to think it's not really worried about killing itself, though...it dies and reincarnates all the time, right? I figure it's more that the Leveller would simply prefer that the world keep existing in some state.)
: SB was nuts. The reason I brought up the thing about him
: wanted to be Leveller was something I recalled from
: the Myth II epilogue. Didn't they say something about
: him perhaps destroying the cycle by trying to rush it
: into being?
"Soulblighter was not The Leveler. He may have been if he had survived into the next millennium – but, in his attempt to force the cycle, he perished and almost certainly will suffer at the hands of those who set it in motion."
Seems very likely to me that the Leveller is either one of "those who set the cycle in motion" or at least serves them--so again, it's not part of his job to hurt the world so badly that the Cycle gets stuck on Dark permanently.
Again, the narrator and his Heron buddy view the Leveller as a "transient divinity that seeks only conflict"--which makes it seem like the Leveller actually cares more about battling the Light than about destroying it for good.. Could be he just keeps the Light alive to have a sparring buddy every thousand years...
Even with Soulblighter, though, you have to look at the narrator's full description of his intent.
"Soulblighter, like Balor before him, seeks not to conquer but to destroy; to be master of the unthinking dead and their blasted lands."
The second half of the sentence shows pretty well what you've been saying--that the narrator thinks it's humanity or living beings that the Fallen Lords were trying to wipe out, not the whole world.
