: Who says the Deciever even pretended to die at all? He
: seems to exist beyond his in-game death in Shiver
: (journal refers to him posessing a crow in Twice Born
: briefing, which he couldn't do if he was dead). When
: he exploded in Shiver, I always thought that was just
: an in-game consequence of Shiver's death sequence,
: especially since the journal contradicted this later.
I recently noted, however, when working on the Encyclopedia, that the dates for "Shiver", "Twice Born", and "The Forge" are the same, meaning that Shiver and Myrdred could have died AFTER Soulblighter died.
Or, what if they died at the same time, and those phantom crows at the end were Soulblighter's spirit escaping as the crow Myrdred held was freed? Besides, his heart is still alive somewhere in the Untamed Lands, so he can't be completely dead...