: The alliance that brought the fir'bolg into the Light
: armies of TFL was forged between ou'Kahn, king of the
: fir'bolg, and Caliban. Who's Caliban? Why is he
: powerful/important enough to parlay with the King of
: the fir'bolg and form a truce with them? And why does
: the truce with Caliban apply to all the human and
: dwarf lands? Because Caliban may be one of the
: avatara.
: Clearly the avatara are the true leaders of the Light
: during the Great War - I believe this makes one of
: them a prime candidate for negotiating such an
: important truce. Also, since the fir'bolg had been
: "enemies of civilized nations", it reasons
: that there may have been some emnity between ou'Kahn
: and another king, whereas the nondenominational
: avatara don't have the interests of any single nation
: in mind.
Well done Jackal. You are in many respects correct. If we look into the bete versions of Myth when Avatara was a unit and not just Alric there were 14 names, Caliban was one of them. The Alliance quote existed at the same time so its clear that they were intended to be the same.Of course he could be avatara and king.
: On a side, but less relevant note, Caliban is the name of
: a mad slave from Shakespeare's "The Tempest"
: - the child of a witch. Also in "The
: Tempest" is Sycorax, one of the random Shade
: names.
Always hand to know more myth name origins, here are a few more.
Madrigal is a music term and Tyr was a Nordic god of war.
-zeph
