Thanks for your help as usual.
Martel put this in his respone:
Alric never reformed the order of the Avatara, but he might have been an archmage, or a nonmagical general at the very least.
What order of the Avatara?
I know that yes, Alric did not reform the Nine, but the only thing we see on there being an Order (that my woefully ignorant self knows of) is in Myth III
Also, isn't an archmage an avatara?
Perhaps it's like this: All avatara are archmages, but not all archmages are avatara?
I don't know.
Seraph