: Well, this thread has managed to get my minor creative
: juices flowing and has called me back from the Aether
: to rehash and rearrange one of my weird ideas.
: Lets assume the Deciever was good all along, intially and
: so forth.
: Now, lets add in the fact from the GURPs material that
: Connacht was last seen, prior to becoming Balor,
: heading off to find a way to break the Cycle once and
: for all.
I thought that was mentioned somewhere else too besides GURPS.
: If Myrdred was a lapdog of the Cait Bruig as Shiver
: claims,
Oh! I forgot! Though, Shiver says that in reference to Dec being so chummy with Alric. "Will you bow to anyone who claims the throne of the Cath Bruig," however, corroborates your theory that he was very loyal to Connacht. Intriguing…
: one could assume the wily little sod was
: planning ahead, or perhaps had been previously been
: given orders by Connacht. Orders to act evil and such,
: using his inborn abilities for lying and deception, to
: fool Balor into believing he could be counted on.
Sure.
: Now, as for The Head, given that the Heron guards are
: renowned for magics which extend life, one could
: assume he was really one of Connacht's men, as he
: claimed, and was initially charged with aiding the new
: armies of the light to defeat Balor. However, over
: time he was corrupted slightly such that the means, if
: not the mission, became dark.
So…perhaps if The Head were a Heron Guard, that would mean he was, perhaps, taken by The Deceiver during the raid on Muirthemne, when it was destroyed.
: This could potentially help to explain why exactly Balor
: beat the living crap out of Muirthemne so hard...to
: cause the Heron guard to become Journeymen and lend a
: more academic backing to the armies of the light...and
: better help them to break the cycle by defeating
: Balor/Connacht.
I severely doubt this. A whole plot to break the cycle? It sounds less realistic than the cycle itself.
: Since there was no empire, they
: wouldn't stick around to defend it and get carved to
: pieces by the evil forces.
I don't think Balor's razing of Muirthemne was any more planned than was the assimilation of the Myrmidons or the death of him by a few mangy Berserks.
: Soublighter/Damas was called to whisk away various items,
: and secret them away...presumably because Connacht
: forsaw they would be useful to the Light, indirectly.
: He also saw to the shattering of the Tain indirectly,
: perhaps forever destroying the Spider Cults rumored to
: have escaped into it.
I…doubt that kind of planning ahead would happen.
: One could also argue that Damas chose the Spine of the
: World as his final stand subconsciously so that he
: could be destroyed there and thus fullfill his Lord's
: wish of destroying the cycle once and for all.
Again, not only is this a Godless world, but it is really strange to believe that he wanted to be destroyed. I'm pretty sure the Dark had long-since possessed him, no more Light in him to subconsciously make any such decision or be able to predict his own doom (it looked pretty grim for the Light, if you recall, and was a 1000000-1 shot that they made it and killed Soulblighter).
: To sum up the arguement in general: The reason the Light
: won when it was supposed to have lost, was because the
: Dark was acting as its own fifth column against the
: Leveller.
I don't really believe so. The Light won more likely because of a deal between Alric and Dec, or simply that Alric is the truly Great Hero who was able to end the unending cycle, making a Grey Age, like this Sword Age.
: Great or Crap? You be the Judge.
Umm…no comment.
Why is "Judge" capitalized? ::afraid::
