: This doesn't even make sense. Surely if you're corrupted
: by the Leveller it means you are the Leveller. Also,
: you're using a non sequitur in your argument. Because
: he can't be possessed he becomes the Warlock leader.
: Hunh?
No you have to be possesed to be the Leveller. And he doesn't become the leader of the Worlocks becasue he can;t be possesed, he's corrupted, thrown out and then joins the 2nd most powerful magic group, rises through the ranks due to his power and becomes leader.
: I don't like the idea of Mjarin communicating with the
: Leveller. You're either corrupted and therefore
: possessed by the Leveller or not considered worthy to
: be the Leveller. If Mjarin was worthy, he would be, he
: wouldn't have a choice. Also, making a deal with the
: Leveller? Doubtful.
: "When the Levellers power reaches its peak" In
: what form? Surely if he's powerful, he is already
: embodied so he wouldn't need Mjarin. Without a body,
: the Leveller has no way of gaining power. Or did you
: mean when the time came for a new Leveller to emerge.
: In which case, it's the cycle! Mjarin wouldn't have a
: choice! You make it seem as though Mjarin is more
: powerful than the Leveller spirit which I really don't
: like. This is why I've been somewhat reluctant to post
: this before explaining my point of view. I've just
: been too lazy to express that until now.
The reason i say that Mjarin has a choice is that so far all those who became the Leveller become possesed by him were dead, it makes sense that the original soul of the body has to be gone before the Leveller takes its place. Thus there isn't any room for more soul in Mjarin, so death is a precondition of being the Leveller.
The Leveller spirit obviously has to wait to take a new body, presumably as he approaches the peak of his power, or otherwise he'd hop right out of one body and into the next dead mage. And obviously with the exception of possesing dead the Leveller spirit is fairly powerless without a body or he wouldn't spend all that time hanging around he'd be killing things with his mighty strength.
After consideration i'll make a bit of a change to the theory, instead of speaking one on one with the Leveller, the Leveller whispers in his ears for a few hundred years (not literally of course, i mean it as the Leveller slowly changed his thoughts by being a malevolent presense around him.). When Mjarin figures out he's next for being the Leveller and really doesn't like the idea of being decapitated, or burnt at a stake or torn apart he pieces Moagim back together, and the Leveller takes that option because Moagim was either more available or more powerful. So Moagim sods off on a killing spree while Mjarin uses Moagims war as a way of gaining control.
-zeph 766
