No one will probably read this after that Myth Story "Civil War" and everyone is probably sick of my retarded posts (anyone remember my post on the length of myth?) but here goes:
: The Marathon hero was far from unsurpassed in terms of
: raw power, though. He moved among physical and mental
: superiors on every side--AIs, Jjaro, W'rkncacnter.
: What made the Tenth Cyborg special was that "he
: was Destiny." The in-game manifestation of this
: was his ability to rewrite history through
: a) hopping through time and between timelines, as seen in
: Marathon Infinity, and
: b) restarting from saved games, which I believe to be an
: actual part of the Marathon storyline ("But you
: were dead a thousand times.")
I don't know about you, but I wasn't bad enough to die 1000 times in Marathon :) I think that that is saying that the player has always been the deciding factor in many major conflicts. That his spirit or according to me, the leveler inside him.
: As a result, no matter how daunting the odds, he could
: always find that one improbably timeline which led to
: victory.
: The Myth Leveller, on the other hand, is an agent of the
: status quo, triumphing by virtue of being the biggest,
: baddest guy around. *He* doesn't beat the odds; he
: wins because he ought to, given his power level.
Like I said in my other post. The myth leveler is so strong because a much larger leveler is needed seeing as how small the myth world. Since it is so small it is more sensitive and less stable. A large force is needed to keep an uneasy balance.
: There is a close match to the Marathon hero, but it's not
: the Leveller--it's Alric. The guy who, though not as
: powerful as his adversaries, somehow managed to screw
: the cycle and redefine Destiny all by himself. Whether
: this is meant to be a connection between the two
: series, or just an indication that "creating your
: own destiny is a popular Bungie theme, I dunno.
I feel that the leveler LET Alric win even though he wasn't suppose to. Remember that level in TFL where Alric says something like "the war in the west is lost, MAdrigal will be destroyed and its people slaughtered whether we waste our lives there or not" What he is saying is that if the light doesn't deal with Balor then there won't be anyone left to even SEE the dark age. PErhaps the leveler inside Balor went too far. Didn't he destroy Muerthemne and the Cath Bruig empire? He nearly went to far which would have tipped the scale too far. I like to think that the leveler gave the light more time to rebuild.
But all this is obviously pure speculation and opinion. It is simply a matter of interpretation. That interpretation being mine and I just thought I'd share it.
Thoth Wannabe-
