: I am writing to post some information on the origins of
: the ages in myth. This may have been posted in the
: past 4 years if so forgive me, I thought it was worth
: mentioning regardless.
Aye, I have seen this before, as Sili pointed out, but it did just make me think of of something new:
"Of all the avatara in the Four Ages..." reads an Avatara flavor text. We all know, now, how much the Myth story has changed between releases... I'm inclined to think that these Axe Age, Sword Age, Wind Age and Wolf Age were the original "Four Ages" of Myth.
Remember that originally the cycle was 500 years long, and it seems that we were on the beginning of the fifth age: Tireces had ruled for 500 years, turned into Moagim and destroyed for 500 years, then got killed by Connacht, who ruled for 500 years, turned into Balor and terrorized for 500 years, and then got killed by Alric. That would make for four Ages.
Since we know the fir'Bolg truce is recent, Balor's time was probably the Sword Age, and we know that Connacht's was originally called the Wind Age, or Age of Light. So given this pattern, I would bet initially Tireces' time was called the Wolf Age / Age of Reason, and Moagim's reign the Axe Age. Makes sense; weapons labling the Dark ages, and other monikers for the Light ages.
But of course all that is scrapped now, and we have the Age of Reason thrown in there, and the Age of Light surname on Connacht's Wolf Age, and Moagim in the Wind Age... And all is fux0red. JJ & Robnar shoulda stuck with their original idea, even if it did mean that this was just another routine Light victory.
