: While Forrest has put a lot of though into his theory, he
: leaves one crucial gap--WHAT ABOUT BALAMUNG???
: Balamung comes with this suit of armor that makes its
: wearer invulnerable, right?
Wrong, BALmung is the sword that Alric finds in the catacombs of Muirthemne and uses against Soulblighter but doesn't kill him with it.
: This would explain why the Leveller is always the great
: hero of the age--he is simply the one who ended up
: wearing the armor.
I don't believe this is true since I don't think all levellers wore armour and presumably if they ended up wearing they should logically come back wearing it.
: Now, we come to the good part. What about Alric?
: Remember, as far as we know, he is unique in the
: history of the Ages in that he is not a warrior but a
: wizard, and so does NOT don the enchanted armor and
: pick up Balamung to finish the job.
Alric had no idea where Balmung was at this time, and if he did, he couldn't very well go to Muirthemne and dig it up just yet when most of that area was under the fallen's rule.
: So the Leveller,
: exerting its influence, retrieves Soulblighter from
: the Great Devoid.
The leveller never retrieves Soulblighter from the Great Devoid since he is just a supposedl lifeless head when he is taken there.
: Because the Great Devoid is a
: bottomless pit, and because the Fallen Lords draw
: their power from Balor, it is logical to assume that
: Soulblighter would not have been able to escape on
: his own--and, of course, he is bound by numerous powerful
: dreams to, in essence, die before Balor.
The spells that bind him to Balor would only control him while Balor lived so when he died, Soulblighter was free
: If he could
: escape on his own, he would only be able to do it with
: Balor's head--which Balamung most probably did not
: want.
You keep referring to Balmung as a lifeforce, it's only a magical sword.
: After all, its work in terms of population
: control and all that was done--the entire population
: of the empire of Cath Bruig and most of the population
: of the Province had been exterminated, for Wyrd's
: sake.
We don't know if Wyrd has any control over
the humans since his one dream was shattered and if he was we don't know if he is on light or dark's side. He's probably on the light's because i remember reading somewhere that the avatara's aim was to unite the one dream.
: So when Soulblighter was retrieved from the
: Great Devoid, it was not as further population
: control, but to force Alric to don the enchanted suit
: of armor, and take up Balamung to defeat him.
This is a good theory if you mean that Balor sent soulblighter to the great devoid to make sure alric became the next leveller. However, balor knew the dark age wa sonly starting nd thought he wasn't going to die so why would he send his lieutenant to the devoid "just in case" he was killed. Soulblighter probably doubted his master and went there as a precaution after he was stopped at the gjol seeing alric's army was strong.
: So will Alric become the next incarnation of the
: Leveller? Possibly, but it is extremely possible that
: he won't--remember, Balor's head in the original game
: is thrown into the Great devoid helment and all, or at
: least it is according to the actual action in the
: game.
I don't think the armour balor wears is the enchanted suit that they found in the desert but mb just his favourite suit because in the myth tfl comic we see him in his armour when he imprisons the trow.
: I can't prove it, but I suspect that the Leveller may
: also be Wyrd's antithesis. I think the reason the Trow
: hunted all those other races to extermination was
: because they were controlled by the then-current
: incarnation of the Leveller (remember, if this thing
: is a divinity, it would have to be OLD!!!) This would
: fulfill its purpose rather nicely, as any new species
: would simply be eradicated.
These young races were in no way controlled by the leveller since humans weren't even a major race then and i'm not sure but i don't think the cycle had started.
: Then, in the Oghre revolt,
: the lesser brethren of the Trow, i.e. the Oghre,
: killed whoever it was who wore Balamung. After all,
: any suit of armor that is that powerful can be
: expected to fit itself to its wearer, right?
I don't know who you're talking about WEARING balmung but if you mean the trow...there is no mention of the trow owning this sword, anyway it wan't evil so why would anyone lesser than the trow want to kill its owner. I don't understand a lot of this post mainly concerning your BalAmung.
: It wouldn't be that big a deal. Besides which, Alric is
: certainly smaller than Balor, and both still manage to
: be able to wear it. Anyway, once Balamung disappeared,
what disappeared?
: without Balamung and the Leveller, the Oghre and the
: other younger races were no longer exactly easy meast.
: So the Trow, realizing that they could no longer
: afford to commit genocide against all the younger
: races, stopped--and Balamung moved on, eventually
: resurrectign itself among the lesser races.
this makes slightly more sense when you describe balamung as the froce of the leveller but i don't know where you got the name from.
this post is very confusing and i'd appreciate if you cleared up some things.
