: Has anyone noticed how extremely old Connacht seemed to
: have been?
: According to a lot sources he was the hero of the Wind
: Age. His rise was during the Second Era.
Now here's the main fallacy of your train of thought, which spoils all the rest. The description of the Hero rising in the East is not of Connacht, but of the Great Hero of the Second Era (who is unnamed). It's to establish the basis of the cycles; every Era (a thousand years), a Great Hero defeats the Leveller, who arises in the middle of the ensuing Era, only to be defeated at the dawn of the next Era.
Now, there's also another observation I've made. It seems that the tides of ligth and dark alternate their directions. We know Connacht and his later form of Balor both came from the East. Early beta texts show that the tomb of the first Myrkridian kind was near Silvermines, indicating that they - and subsequently their leader Moagim - came from the west. Alric, also, came from the west. So we have:
Moagim (west)
Connacht (east)
Balor (east)
Alric (west)
I would bet that Tireces, the old incarnation of Moagim, also came from the West.
Now, look at what we know of Levellers and eras. In the Second Era he was killed. Again in the third. Again in the fourth. Then there's Moagim (fifth) and Balor (sixth). So, trace the east-west pattern back. Moagim from the west. Fourth from the east. Third from the west. And second from the east. Thus, Second Era tradition would tell of their hero rising in the east, just as would Fourth Era and Sixth Era (Connacht) tradition.
So, lets put together a bit of a chronology here.
0000
First Era begins.
First Light Age begins.
Civilization starts in the west.
0500
First Dark Age begins.
Leveller arises in the west.
1000
Second Era begins.
Second Light Age begins.
Hero rises in the east, beheads Leveller and burns him at the stake.
1500
Second Dark Age begins.
Leveller arises in the east.
2000
Third Era begins.
Third Light Age begins.
Hero rises in west, draws and quarters Leveller on plains before Illeum.
2500
Third Dark Age begins.
Leveller arises in west.
3000
Fourth Era begins.
Fourth Light Age (Axe Age?) begins.
Hero rises in the east, torches Leveller and buries him under Mountains of Kor.
3500
Fourth Dark Age begins.
Leveller rises in the east.
4000
Fifth Era begins.
Age of Reason begins.
Tireces rises in the west, kills Leveller.
4500
Fifth Dark Age begins.
Tireces becomes Moagim, sweeps in from the west.
5000
Sixth Era begins.
Wind Age begins.
Connacht rises in the east, kills Moagim, whoops Myrkridia
and Trow, imprisoned The Watcher, etc etc etc. Damas is Connacht's lieutenants.
5500
Wolf Age begins.
Connacht becomes Balor, sweeps in from the east. Damas becomes Soulblighter. Myrdred, an Avatara, is bound to Balor as "The Deceiver".
6000
Seventh Era begins.
Sword Age begins.
Alric rises in the West, beheads Balor. The Watcher and Shiver are killed.
6060
Soulblighter breaks cycle? Shiver ressurected, killed again; Myrdred joins Alric, is killed by Shiver. Soulblighter killed.
: This might very well not be Connacht, but rather Tireces,
: but there is no source that states that Tireces ever
: vanquished the Dark like Connacht did nor that he rose
: in the East. Of course, this might just be due to
: fanatic nostalgia of those silly members of the Heron
: Guard, exaggerating everything Connacht did... It
: would, however, be very pointless to write about
: Tierces in a flavor on Balor.
No so; Balor was a Leveller, and that flavor text was writing about the fall of the first Leveller
: On top of all this Mazzarin, the most powerful avatara of
: the Four Ages according to one of the avatara flavors
: of Myth: TFL, was killed during the Wind Age. Mazzarin
: was the one who collapsed the shrine of Nyx on Sinis.
: Sinis must then be over 1,000 years old. Sinis tells
: Alric in "Out of the Barrier" that he wagers
: Alric had though he'd seen the last of him. That would
: in turn mean that Alric is over 1,000 years old.
We recently discussed this elsewhere on the forum. Mazzarin was the most powerfull in the Four Ages. Since he fell in the Wind Age, that would mean the "Four Ages" are the one before the Age of Reason, the Age of Reason itself, the one between the Age of Reason and the Wind Age, and the Wind Age itself. (There are obviously more than four ages, though, such as the Axe, Wolf, and Sword ages. I suspect the "Four Ages" are like the "Nine" - just four prominant ages, like the nine prominant avatara).
: Moreover Damas, Soulblighter, Twice Born, who seems to
: actually have been one of Connacht's lieutenants must
: be over a millenia old, too. And while we're at it,
: Myrdred seems to know Damas very well. Could it be
: that he is also bankrupting whatever pension funds
: that might be in existance in the world of Myth?
Yep, Damas/Soulblighter is over a thousand years old, though not much more. Myrdred was from the Wolf Age, making him at the most 560 years old in Myth II. Magicians seem to last a damn long time in Myth. Lets not forget the Watcher, who was around before Connacht (presumably one of Moagim's Fallen Lords), making him over a millenia old as well.
: And then there's a difficulty with the Four Ages spoken
: of in one of the Myth: TFL Avatara flavors. There are
: not four ages spoken of, but rather six of them. They
: are, with the exception of the Axe Age, placed in what
: at the moment seems a fairly accurate chronological
: order; The Age of Reason, The Wind Age, The Age of
: Light, The Wolf Age and the Sword Age. The Axe Age
: seems to be mentioned but once.
The Age of Light was an old name for the Wind Age. See above: the Age of Reason, [unknown], the Wind Age, the Wolf Age, and the Sword Age are the ones we know in order. The Axe Age fits in there somewhere, and there are many unknown ages.
"There are obviously many things which we do not understand, and may never be able to" - Leela, Ship Operations AI, UESC Marathon.
