: 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.
: 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 thought of that, but the one fact of the matter is The Watcher allied himself balor, who had imprisoned him in a rock for a thousand years, which when you think of it is worse than being dead. Lets be honest the Watcher isn;t big in revenge, if someone offers him the chance to create the scarred world of undead he dreams of he's pretty much sold.
: 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.
Did I fail to mention that Alric was corrupted, and is thus no longer allied to the Fir'bolg, and has his big fortress in the east, where all the evil things are, and that in the end he's possesed by the Leveller, and that he is EVIL.
: 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.
As I said the evil bastard is no longer allied with the Fir'bolg, in fact during my entire post I never once mentioned the Fir'bolg. So to set the record straight he is not allied with, the dwarves, the Fir'bolg, the Cath Bruig, the Province, The Beserk, or the Squirrels, well maybe some of the Squirrels.
: 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.
Soulblighter was not ressurected, his spirit was trapped unwillingly be Alric and SB hasen't much of a choice, being dead and non Corporeal and all.
: 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.
I think I made it clear that Alric was fighting the Cath bruig not the Leveller or did I fail to get that message across. So to put it simply for you:ALric baaad, kieren GOOOOD.
