: There's no other source for this except GURPS, but
: nothing contradicts it, so I personally consider it as
: cannonical as anything else...
: Avatara is not a general term for a Light archmage. The
: Avatara are a select order of the most elite Light
: archmages with the specific goal of reuniting the 49
: Dreams of Wyrd, and as such they share much (though of
: course not all) of their knowledge in the pursuit of
: this goal.
: Normally, NOBODY shares it when they learn a Dream.
: Dreams are just too powerful to trust anybody else
: with. So if these people are sharing Dreams, they must
: be a very select, very elite, small circle of only the
: most physically, intellectually, and emotionally
: balanced people - the Avatara.
: In circumstances like this, it would make perfect sense
: that you would keep a numerical limit: larger numbers
: are larger liabilities for leaked information. GURPS
: says that it's not ALWAYS nine, there have been
: exceptions, but normally there are only nine Avatara
: at a time.
: So the Nine are the current circle of Avatara. Before,
: the Avatara might have been The Ten, or even The
: Thirteen, but I doubt they were ever the Hundred
: Twenty-Four.
Well, by GURPS definition, Diarmuid would be a powerful Archmage, but not an Avatara.
However, unless Balor somehow corrupted Myrdred by threating him with such horrible pain and anguish he could not resist, that brings up a problem.
He is refered in the game (Through the Ermine, I believe) as being an Avatara of the Wolf Age.
My theory what an Avatara is, is basically a Light Archmage, probably with certain general goals, but not any One Dream stuff.
So, as I said earlier in this post, Diarmuid would be a powerful Archmage, but not an Avatara judging by GURPS.
Seraph
