: partially in one sense, common sense the other, we know
: Maueldun and rabican were killed by Myrdred and
: Bahl'al respectively, and the other two remaining must
: have died somehow, and the Durak mention, well he's
: the other guy mentioned of defeating Deciever so it
: seems the easiest way of filling the numbers. None of
: it's taking from GURPS without being put to extreme
: scrutiny logic wise, ie its not too hard to guess that
: they died of wounds, battles, or old age.
: -zeph (Boom, He he look at em die.)
I was talking about "Durak". I'd never heard the name before. So I looked up the reference, and it sounds a lot more he's just another berserk: "Twelve Motion Jeweled Skull says he was last here sixty years ago, fighting alongside the likes of Durak and Turgeis with Burning Steel". There's nothing to suggest he's an avatara that I can see.
Maeldun wasn't killed that I recall. Injured maybe, but not dead. And Rabican just isn't mentioned again. The last quote about other avatara by the narrator is: "Something like a civil war erupted back west, too, as thousands of our own men unexpectedly rose to defend The Head. Two of The Nine were killed, which makes them something like The Three now, if you also subtract Murgen and Cu Roi, who did not escape the destruction of the Tain, and the others who have died this year." Maeldun and Rabican aren't in the West so I'd assume they were the other two of "The Three".
Later you can *surmise* from Alric's claim that the west has been lost that Rabican at least is killed, but there's still nothing to support Maeldun buying the farm. And if The Black Company is any basis for Myth, then at least half of the guys the narrator thinks/hears are dead aren't actually gone. :)
--Stinger
