: The only major flaws I can see are all the mentions of
: bringing back ancient and tireless evils. Firstly,
: besides gods, there is no proof that a being can be
: brought back from the dead in Myth. But some way or
: another will be imagined up for that to be possible,
: so I'll move on to the choices of people being
: resurrected.
Shades not counting...
: Alric invested many of his loyal men's lives, much very
: precious time, and risked his own life setting the
: trap that killed the Watcher in TFL, which we all saw
: with our own eyes (hopefully, I don't know if everyone
: played the game through but I certainly hope we all
: have). The idea of Alric actually bringing this man --
: one of the most ancient terrors of all things good in
: their world -- back to life is perfectly risible. I
: can hear it already: "But Welly, desperate
: situations call for desperate actions". This
: doesn't apply. Why not? Someone as powerful as the
: Watcher himself cannot be bound by anything less than
: a god [Balor]; otherwise Myrdred would have done that
: decades ago. Therefore, if he comes back to life, he
: cannot be trusted nor bound. Besides, logically
: thinking, he would never willingly ally himself with
: the man who killed him. Instead he'd join the winning
: side. So bringing him back would therefore be less
: than ideal. It would create far more problems than
: solutions. If the Watcher can kill Mazzarin, he can
: find a way to screw Alric big time if he's brought
: back, and then collect his reward from Alric's
: enemies.
I couldn't put it better myself.
: Next: If it was possible to make b’Y’laggo corporeal, why
: would Alric ever do it? Firstly, it's the diety that
: is worshipped by his allies' [fir'Bolgs] worst
: enemies. Bringing b’Y’laggo into the picture will
: surely please the Bre's, but will certainly not make
: any fir'Bolgs happy. And the bre's have attacked your
: men before and jeopardized the mission to bring in
: Myrdred. Alric has no business ever allying himself
: with the blood enemies of his friends. Besides,
: bringing in a profane elemental spirit into the fold
: even sounds bad. The implications and huge question
: marks would be as bad, or possibly worse, than
: bringing in the Watcher.
: Someone will likely say something like: 'well, the bolgs
: and the bre's will just have to be allies for the time
: being'. That quite possibly would be the biggest crock
: of a defense argument that could ever be proposed.
: Why? In Myth II it is clearly stated that these two
: races are unquestionably blood enemies: "the
: fir’Bolg have been honing their martial skills on [the
: bre'Unor] since time before memory". Even in the
: face of mutual destruction they will doubtlessly be
: trying to screw one another over. It's like Ghols and
: Dwarves hanging out together sharing a beer: utterly
: impossible. It's not ever going to happen. A hatred of
: that level cannot be merely forgotten about all of a
: sudden. Not when you've been terrorized for countless
: generations by one another.
Not unless Wyrd comes down or something...and even then it's virtually unbelievable.
: Moving next to Soulblighter. Let's see: the latter
: individual spent much of his time and resources trying
: to kill Alric in TFL. And possibly even before that.
: What happens 60 years later? Soulblighter again throws
: his all at Alric in an attempt to obliterate him.
: But what does Alric do? he winds up killing him for
: his troubles. And saves the known world in the
: process.
: Resurrecting those people would be like trying to put out
: a fire with a bucket full of gasoline and a loofah
: soaked with petroleum. Tapping the resources of the
: Dark to fight the same Darkness is no different.
: My bottom line is: if you're dying from dehydration, you
: only drink the sea water if you just want die faster.
: -Welly
That's a concise and brilliant way to put it.
Seraph
