: Except look at when Mazzarin lived. It was well after the
: first Moagim and his opponent had died, and
: "decades" before Connacht fought Moagim
: Reborn. So no Saviors or Levellers were alive at the
: time. And as I've been telling Zeph, it would make
: negative sense for him to be a previous life of
: Connacht (since he's definitely NOT the Great Hero),
: because that would make three light lives in a row. If
: he was between the two Moagims, however, that would
: make more sense, since that would put a Light between
: the two Darks.
However, if he were between the two Moagims, then where is his B spirit Leveller opponent? The Leveller is the avatar of a god, and a god of destruction at that. I greatly doubt that a Leveller could be defeated so easily as not even to be mentioned in the history books. Besides, if Mazzarin does fit between the two Moagims, it would completely didrupt the cycle, which, almost all agree, should alternate in victories between Light and Darkness. If Mazzarin were in there, the cycle would be as follows:
Great Hero: Leveller: Victor:
Tierces(A) Dark Lord(B) Tierces(A)(Light)
Great Hero(B) Moagim(A) Moagim(A)(Dark)
Mazzarin(A) Dark LordII(B)Mazzarin(A)(Light)
Connacht(B) Moagim Reborn(A)Connacht(B)(Light)
Alric(A) Balor(B) Should have been Balor(B)(Dark)
Not only does this cause there to be one Light age too many, but this "age" would not have been one of a thousand years, as all ages before and since were, except the Sword age (the current one) in which everything seems to have gone wrong. The theory that Mazzarin was a great hero in between the two Moagims also breaks the cycle in the law/chaos orientation (The A spirit being chaotic, the B lawful), which, assuming that Mazzarin was not a Great Hero, fits as follows: A great hero victory leads to a leveller victory of the same law/chaos orientation, but a leveller victory causes the law/chaos orientation of the Great Hero following him to flip to be the orientation opposite that of the leveller, as can be seen in the chart below:
Great Hero: Leveller: Victor:
Tierces(A) Dark Lord(B) Tierces(A)(Light)
Great Hero(B) Moagim(A) Moagim(A)(Dark)
Connacht(B) Moagim Reborn(A)Connacht(B)(Light)
Alric(A) Balor(B) Should have been Balor(B)(Dark)
And the fact that the B spirit is lawful while the A spirit is chaotic can be seen in the way that Balor used undead(reliable, and absolutely predictable), while binding his Fallen Lords in an attempt to prevent any insubordination or deviation from his plan of campaign, as well as in the way that, as Connacht, he hunted down and destroyed artifacts, fearing their unpredictable powers should they fall into the wrong hands.
Alric, on the other hand, always gave a hight level of autonomy to his commanders (us!), and, while this led to a large number of victories against Balors more rigid organisation, it may well have also helped lead to the Civil War in the West, with those commanders believing that the head was a genuine help leading their troops to its defence. Similarly, Alric sees the unpredictability of artifacts as a good thing which can give him an edge, and, as Moagim, was more than happy to command the savage and unpredictable Myrkrydia, which almost certainly shows a chaotic nature.
