: Alrught, if your theory proves true, then I have some
: tidbits that may interest you. First off, how far East
: does the land extend? We know that the Untamed Lands
: extend quite far to the Southeast, but does anything
: lay beyond Gower, or was the Mad Journeyman correct?
I tend to agree with Dan's statement along the thread, that the Edge of All is simply the boundary of human knowledge. Maybe there's a coastline there and no one known to the Province has ever crossed the ocean beyond. We really have no evidence either way--as far as I'm concerned, the Mad Journeyman was mad. Anyway, wouldn't the Light forces have gone East to get rid of Balor's head away if there was really a vast sea of nothingness there? After all, no one really knows how deep the Great Devoid is--it would make more sense to go to the Edge of All, where you can actually look down and say, "Yep, that's nothingness, all right." In the absence of convincing evidence either way, I prefer to believe that the Myth world is shaped like an ordinary planet.
: Here are some quick associations based upon the current
: Levelers and the current Myth world. If Alric arose
: from the West and Connacht from the East, then Tireces
: arose from the West!
Quite. Forrest believes that Levellers have always arisen alternately from the East and from the West. I'm not sure the pattern is quite that definite, but in general I think each Leveller arises roughly on the opposite side of the continent from the last one's birthplace.
: Another question remains... can geography play the same
: role as the home city of the Great Hero/Leveler? In
: that case then Connacht arose and died in the East,
: while Tireces would have done both in the West. If
: this follows suit, then the Moutains of Kor and the
: Plains before Illeum are opposite one another. And
: Alric will be killed somewhere to the West of the
: Cloudspine.
Connacht died more in the center of the continent than in the East. I would think that, in general, the Leveller would tend to die on the opposite side of the continent from his birthplace, since that's where he's trying to complete his conquest and where the Great Hero will arise to kill him. I tend to think of Connacht's death in the center of the continent as a fluke; if Alric hadn't taken the fight to him in his fortress, Balor would presumably have had his climactic final battle with Alric somewhere in the West, at the Light's last stand. Alric just happened to be a little sneaky this time. Short answer--Levellers die all over the place, but probably on average pretty far from their birthplace.
--SiliconDream
