: i know there's little to go on but I took into account
: that the name doesn;t apply much to any other unit and
: I'd take at least one Avatar to take out the deciever.
No more than it took an avatara (avatarA<--) to take out the Watcher. Granted Alric was involved, but only at a distance. Which could be said of every event during the Great War.
: Rabican and Mauldun had been already taken care of by
: then. I doubt either of them would survive a battle
: with either Deciever or bahl'al if their armies were
: defeated.
By who? I won't dispute the likelihood of their demise, just the idea that this is written in stone. Or written at all, for that matter. Does it actually say they were killed?
: Surmise!!, note the word Rabican was encircled (thus
: trapped) and crushed (thus killed, I doubt he escaped
: the clutched of on of the most powerful mages of all
: time.) Secondly we here throughout the journal that
: the writer is in contact with the high up officers, he
: spoke to Murgen for example.
Is this a drawn conclusion or written specifically? I don't recall it.
: Except the fact that it states his army is defeated by
: the watcher, I would expect that had he still lived
: then he would have been continued to be mentioned,
: being such a major character.
No avatara except Alric are mentioned after a certain point (chapter 18?). So by then all the info the guys in the east receive is through Alric. There's no reason to believe he'd lie, but then, he's not infallible. Remember, he believed the head when he got sent into the death trap at the Barrier. :)
: It also takes away from the story that most of best
: Avatar were still alive and that there was a big army
: back home, It gived the, Don't worry lads, if we fail
: we can send over the big army back home to tack em
: out, effect. Which I doubt Bungie was aiming for.
Pfft, I'm not *saying* they are alive. Just *suggesting* that we don't know they aren't. Thin lines and all that...
: I can't believe your using information, from another
: media to prove your theory, some people complain about
: Gurpds, other Myth III, but using other media, whether
: or not the game is based on it is stupid.
Again, I'm not trying to prove any theory. Let alone using BC to do so. But as a source for the Myth story, the BC is a definate source for research into the topic, since it was for Bungie. This thread was about potential stories, remember?
: Since we here nothing more of them, and they are cleary
: defeated by far superior mages than they it is quite
: clear and easy to "surmise" that they were
: dead. Taking into account that the journal writer was
: close to the big guys it is acceptable to think that
: maybe if they don't appewra anymore then
: they_are_d.e.a.d.
I'm glad you like "surmise". Did you need to look it up? :/ The journal writer was not close to the big guys. Otherwise he would have spoken to them, not been spoken to. He's simply in close proximity to a few of them because he is one of few veterans left in a war that has clearly eliminated most of the fighting forces of the west. If Alric and the narrator were the only two men left alive after Balor was killed, one could *surmise* that Alric would have something to say to him. As for whether or not they'd shoot the breeze, I dunno. :)
Bottom line: the story leaves enough "open" plotlines to make for a wide range of possibilities. I would only take as canon that which the narrators see with their own eyes or that you can see in-game.
And I'd forget Myth 3 ever happened. :)
--Stinger
