: How is it that Alric and Twelve Motion just pulled this
: out of their proverbial asses? How did Twelve Motion
: not die when everyone else from Alric’s eastern army
: was killed? How did Twelve Motion escape, involving
: something we’ve never heard of, just the same as Alric
: was miraculously rescued? These three have a deep
: connection here.
Though I readily agree that something weird is going on, There are a couple of explanations for Twelve Motion's survival. First, decimation is not extermination. Strictly it means the death of 10 percent of the army...more loosely it just means severe casualties. Either way, though, the term implies that there are lots of survivors--I'd imagine they were just too wounded, exhausted and disorganized to try to get Alric back.
Second, remember that "Alric's eastern campaigns" also include the last third or so of the game. Twelve Motion could be a Legion survivor.
: And how the hell did Twelve Motion know exactly the
: words to say over The Deceiver to revive him? Isn’t
: that sort of thing a secret spell that every archmage
: will tend to keep to himself?
What surprises me more is that it didn't even matter if the words were said correctly. Yeah, I know it's an AoD reference, but even so. Seems to me like the Deceiver probably got up under his own power.
: It could be they had a deal…but that only accounts for
: Alric and The Deceiver, not for how Twelve Motion fits
: into the picture…unless Dec’s death/coma was faked, or
: set up, so Twelve Motion could come back sixty years
: later and revive The Deceiver…but why?
So that he could clone himself and send the clone off to die with Shiver, of course. :-)
: It could also be that The Deceiver bound Alric and Twelve
: Motion to his will, Dec having the whole thing set
: up…but mb not his death, near Silvermines.
The least fantastic explanation I can think of is that The Deceiver remained conscious while frozen, and able to mentally influence people at a distance. Initially he caused people to forget about him and just assume that he disappeared or died, since he didn't want anyone tracking him down and finishing him off. Once Soulblighter arose, Myrdred figured he was safer fighting on the Light side, so he telepathically jogged Alric's and Twelve Motion's memory and inserted info on how to come get him.
As for how he could have done this long-distance mind control...well, The Head could still be around; it disappeared but it wasn't destroyed so far as we know. Alternatively, Myrdred could have established a mental link with Twelve Motion when he fought him just after TFL, the same way he bound Phelot during their fight before A Murder of Crows.
: In “Gate of Storms”, for instance, there are Brigands who
: are defending Alric in Madrigal, at the gates, as
: guards, etcetera. Why on Earth would Alric use
: Brigands as any kind of military defense? Well, the
: cutscenes were made by Anime before Bungie released
: anything about the Brigands replacing Warriors to the
: public. So, they already had their cutscenes, and it
: would have been too hard, I guess, for them to change
: the ones with Brigands to Warriors. This is the most
: logical conclusion for why there are Brigands in the
: place of Warriors.
You'll also notice that Cruniac and at least one other Warrior in the pre-game art have Brigand-ish facial hair...apparently Bungie liked the look too much to give it up completely.
--SiliconDream
