: There's also one theory that the Deciever helped Alric
: partly because he felt loyalty to the Empire of Cath
: Bruig, as suggested in Shiver's line which goes
: something like "Will you follow anyone who claims
: the crown of Cath Bruig?". The reason why he
: served Balor was because the Deciever knew Balor while
: he was still Connacht, and, as such, the Emperor of
: Cath Bruig, to whom he had sworn allegiance. True,
: Balor did level the Cath Bruig Empire, but, in theory
: at least, all those he killed were followers of the
: usurper Ceiscoran, so constituting treason, and
: justifying his actions.
Ungh...
WE DON'T KNOW THAT CEISCORAN CAME AFTER CONNACHT!
All we know is Ceiscoran made copies of the crown. We have no idea when. There may have been 11 copies of the crown when Connacht was around, and since he was a legitimate successor they gave him the true crown (or he could have just taken it from the fallen Emperor who died battling the Leveller, but that would be rather presumptuous of him).
