: About the Tain, (I didnt get to the part where it's first
: shown in M3). But it was said to have been stolen from
: muirthmene by raiders. SoulBlighter (damas ofcourse)
: FINDS it in myth TFL, there is a cutscene of SB
: watching the excavation (probably in forest heart) and
: then we see the tain found. He could have buried it
: there , but we also know that the tain can
: "call" people (especially bad people) from
: distances. (mentioned in myth 2).
So a safer explanation - Damas found it(or was guarding it, as the Tain was lying around after eveyrthing was settled post-Mjarin) - but eventually lost it to aforementioned raiders. No idea why these raiders would bury it in the Forest Heart.. maybe they activated it while pointing the suction end at themselves...
We can just say that damas lost it, and soulblighter found it during the war then. Doesn't complicate things excessively that way.
: I don't think the head's cause is very defined, seems
: like he wants to screw EVERYONE up save maybe SB and
: or myrdered which BTW HATE each other (see their
: dialoge in myth2 in level "a murder of crows). I
: think killing shiver was just a part of the entire
: plot and he didnt have anything against her.
Well, the Head is obviously not very rational - if his choice was pure flat-out vengeance against Balor, he wouldn't have messed up the Legion's chances for victory what with the civil war and betraying Alric - unless it was ALL PART OF HIS DASTARDLY DIABOLICAL PLAN TO DRIVE THE LEGION INTO A DESPERATE MARCH ON RHI'ANON! while fairly convoluted, there *is* evidence that supports this - as you mentioned, the Total Codex seems next to worthless to the cause, other than depriving the Watcher of it - and while the Head seems to have played fairly little direct role in the Legion's affairs once the Legion gets chased all the way east across the Cloudspine - having the Legion drive east with the Watcher in pursuit does give the Head a chance to make his play for power(which presumably failed), massacre a few of the Nine, and watch as the Legion goes east and happens to waste Balor on the way out...
: BTW I'm
: led to believe that SHIVER that dies in myth TFL is
: ***NOT*** Ravanna, but this a whole different thread.
Well, the physical similarities are incredibly obvious - but as Myrdred calls Shiver "Ravanna" in Myth 2, and the item used to resurrect her is one mentioned as something Damas was asked to keep at the end of Myth 3(The Mirror of Taramist), I'm inclined to think otherwise.
