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Forrest, Forrest, Forrest…
Posted By: Archer »–)› (198.139.4.220)
Date: 6/2/2001 at 6:02 p.m.
In Response To: Re: The Fallen Lords (Forrest of B.org)
You need to get straight in your head what Canon Myth is. :-)
The only pure and truthful canon material of Myth is ingame. More specifically, from the lastest game in the series. After that in degree of law come the manuals, which are sometimes wrong, and so ingame takes over. Bungie then might tell us things or present other canon things, such as Chimera or what they might tell little birdies to whisper in Forrest’s ear :-D. GURPS follows this with its extreme and frequent errors, though a good resource of ideas and theories. Theories by Asylumites and the like come after. Plugins and third-party stuff that is based off of all before come then. Finally, the most useless and non-canon thing of all is the Pre-Release.
Did I leave out any sources?
So the order of Canon Myth goes as follows:
1.) Ingame
2.) Manuals
3.) What Bungie Offers Us (outside of the original material)
4.) GURPS
5.) Theories
6.) Plugins Based Off Of Above
7.) Pre-Release
These things are all “canon”, but to varying degrees. Technically, only ingame is canon, and therefore everything else is nothing if Ingame didn’t say it first. Pre-Release is barely anything. Theories can be believed (often are), so they’re warented more than Pre-Release, especially the good ones. Again, only Ingame is True Canon.
Gurps is approved by Bungie, you say? So were the manuals, but they’re sometimes wrong. GUPRS is often wrong. Hence, this order falls into succession, and the chain of canon command is complete.
Now, that section in GURPS which talks about the Fallen Lords, titled “The Fallen Lords” on page 99, is blatenly a loser of credit. It indicates clearly that Balor was a Fallen Lord, which he was not, thereby screwing over the entire section out of its own credibility. GURPS is not a tool to be used lightly or primarily, which it proves time and time again. It is tainted in every place, and by the very fact that it is not meant to be anything more than a gaming instruction book, not an encyclopedia.
Lol…The Faceless Man is still a valid name for a Fallen Lord? Why not Lurker any bit more? They were never talked about ingame, ever, as were the unmentioned Avatara, and should be taken as such: unnamed and without identity.
“And the last Fallen Lord has yet to be revealed!” This one cracks me up! There are only six Fallen Lords, which it states clearly in the beginning, and mentions all six it believes to be Fallen Lords. It then, at the end, says that line! LOL! You really believe this guy, Forrest? Ol’ Geney didn’t even bother to finish the game for you before he wrote his book. I bet he had a reason to say that…(such as the obvious one, that Seabolt was trying to inspire people to come up with their own RPGs, not to accurately deleniate history, in any way)
Archer »–)›
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