: Heh, I knew what you meant, but, what your talking about
: is a misnomer. Multiple Myth writings refer to 2
: different conventions when talking about Ages.
: 1. Literal Ages utilized for writing in history books.
: 2. Metaphorical Ages talking about the change between
: control by the Light and control by the dark.
: This changeover between the 2 different concepts is made
: more clear by the brief history written in the manual
: for Myth 3. Granted I do not agree entirely with all
: the storyline in Myth 3, I do feel their history of
: the Ages was pretty accurate.
: Let me give you an example of what I am talking about.
: Each Literal Age does not represent a change between
: light and dark, it represents a major shift in the
: status quo of events.
: The Metaphorical Ages (the shift between light and dark)
: take place within the Literal Ages.
: When Balor came, he ushered in a dark age(metaphorical
: age) that existed within the Sword age(literal age -
: at least I believe that is the name of the age). Balor
: brought a metaphorical age of destruction that lasted
: years upon years. It slowly brought down the Cath
: Bruig Empire and finally destroyed Llancanfaran.
: You need to remember, it does state that Balor had been
: attacking and subjegating Myth World for perhaps over
: a century before the "Great War" starts. So
: Balor began the Dark Age(metaphorical). It was the
: responsibility of the Nine to put an end to this Dark
: Age(metaphorical) and began the Light
: Age(metaphorical) still within the Sword Age
: (literal). The Cycle had been renewed by the bleeding
: of the people of Myth World and the arising of a hero.
: The Light Age should have lasted for awhile(a few hundred
: years) then the cycle should have started over.
: Instead, Soulblighter arose, he was specifically
: stated not to be the Leveler in the epilogue of Myth
: 2, therefore he broke the Cycle of Life. He attempted
: to bring Dark when the Light Age was supposed to take
: root. He also tried to destroy the fabric of Myth
: world by destroying the Forge of the Cloudspine.
That's an new prespective on the age plan for me. Not sure if I agree, but it does make sense. It would explain the quote about Mazzarin being the most powerful Avatara of the four Ages, which I personally took to mean all of Myth time, or at least known history, but never expanded that out.
: Even though the Leveler is bent on destruction of the
: good races, he does not wish to destroy the World. The
: purpose of the Leveler is to be part of the renewal of
: the Cycle of Life. Soulblighter stepped out of this
: purpose, betrayed everyone, and attempted to break the
: cycle entirely by breaking the world.
The term pychopath comes to mind...then the words understatement of the four ages.
: Anyway, that is what I got out of it. Also, Balmung does
: make you completely immune to lightning, Alric is very
: resistant before, but immune after getting Balmung. He
: retains this immunity in The Forge. However, yes, he
: used magic to defeat Soulblighter, I just felt the
: "Coup De Gras" would be for Alric to behead
: Soulblighter, like he beheaded Balor. Remember, after
: magically defeating Soulblighter, the cutscene comes
: into being.
Literarywise it sounds better then "After Alric broke off a fragment of the cliff in which Soulblighter stood, plunging him into the lava..."
All things said and done, very good story.
Glad that you wrote something like that...I love reading good fantasy.
Seraph
