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Re: The Coming of the Comet

Posted By: Forrest (cache2.avtel.net)
Date: 6/2/1999 at 5:48 p.m.

In Response To: Re: The Coming of the Comet (Ares)

: I am afraid I just can't agree with you people here...
: Connacht was the first person in a thousand years to
: defeat the Myrkridia in battle...

Hrm... it seems that the one thing that messes up all our theories is the statement that Connacht was the first person in a thousand years to defeat the Myrkridia. So, perhaps that wasn't a literal statement, but was hyperbole instead. In Marathon 2, Durandal states that we at Lh'owon are "half a thousand light-years away" from Earth or Tau Ceti. But someone else later pointed out on the Marathon's Story Page that the galaxy isn't even 500 light-years across, so there's no way two stars in our galaxy could be half a thousand light-years away from eachother. Durandal was using hyperbole. Likewise, perhaps the prologue writer, who stated that Connacht was the first man in a thousand years to win a battle with the Myrkridia, was also using hyperbole; it was really only a few years, at most a decade of losing battles, or perhaps there were even a few winning battles in there. Remember, this guy is relating a story ten centuries after it's occurance, using "old songs and half-forgotten legends" as his sources. Things could have gotten quite a bit exaggerated by then.

: As for Myth2: They dont get all resurrected at once,
: surely you played the Tain level in Myth2... the
: Summoner is "slowly" (quote from journal
: entry) resurrecting their race, he is bringing them
: back one at a time.

Yes, but compared to the Myrkridia having to breed their armies, ressurrecting one after another (who are all immediately adults), is pretty close to "all at once". That's what I meant.

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