: I don't. :-) And you'll recall that the original
: Deceiver-lives theories were also created on the
: strength of in-game evidence (postgame pics, narration
: and Soulblighter's failure to escape at the end).
: There are a *huge* number of discrepancies with the
: journals on The Wall, Shiver, Twice Born and The
: Forge. I'm very sure that Twice Born actually occurred
: on Monday--see my long boring post at
:
: http://carnage.bungie.org/myth/asylum/asylum.forum.pl?read=10060
: (which you said you agreed with once--although of course
: you're free to change your mind. :-)
: Anyway, if that's correct then the statement implying the
: Deceiver's survival occurs two days after his apparent
: "death." And if the crow's death was all
: that was needed to stop Soulblighter, then it would
: have been irrelevant whether The Deceiver held onto it
: or not. It was already Kentucky-fried at the end of
: "A Murder of Crows."
: Well, first of all, there's no such thing as "as
: good as dead" when applied to a Fallen Lord.
: "Yes, he's a super-powerful sorcerer, but hey, I
: saw him fall into a river and lose his scepter, so
: let's forget about him?" Giving up on finding
: Damas is understandable--no one knows what happened to
: him and he could be anywhere--but if they actually
: knew where Myrdred's comatose body lay, it'd only make
: sense for Alric to hike up there on a weekend and tear
: his head off.
: Second, Alric didn't seem to even know the basics of what
: had happened to The Deceiver. He just "believed
: that the Deceiver still lived," and had yet to
: get the details from Twelve Motion. Only after
: "Through The Ermine" did Twelve Motion
: finally come out with his story of the Deceiver's
: undoing. That seems a bit irresponsible to me...
: Says the man who introduced the concept of
: "contemporaneous reincarnations of the same
: spirit" into the Asylum. :-)
: --SiliconDream
I do love the Asylum, I find something, introduce it and the discussion arising from it eventually leads me back to thinking over my own insane theory on the Myth universe. The question raised here, perhaps coming from lack of familiarity with the reason behind why Twelve Motion decided at this time to just happen to remember (or find out) where the Deciever was. It could trace back to an older idea I had about the Cycle.
As recounted in http://carnage.bungie.org/myth/asylum/asylum.forum.pl?read=9093 Yeah, I think thats the right one.
Anyway, the reasoning in a nutshell is that the Head, was in reality one of Connacht's advisors (as he claimed) kept alive through the use of Heron magics. The head, may have been spirited away by the Journeymen at the close of the civil war, and they've been using him as a sort of oracle (like the Bungie Soul! :D) ever since. The Head knew where the Deciever fell somehow, since he had read the total codex, and told the journymen at the appropriate moment knowing that Myrdred would help to see to Connacht's dream of the destruction of the cycle by aiding the needed support to the Forces of Light, which would then force Soulblighter's hand and call down thirty types of hell on the forces of evil for mucking with things.
Anyway. Its just my crappy idea :)
-Spook2k5
