: No one's suggesting it's easy, just that it's possible if
: you are have the power. Soulbighter has to wait in the
: Untamed Lands until his power has risen to what it was
: when Balor was alive. I believe that Balor's death
: lead to his weakening, which is why he was so easy to
: get rid of at the Great Devoid.
: The problem with this is that there's no evidence either
: way. We don't know that he died between his Damas and
: Soulblighter stages, but at the same time, we don't
: know that he didn't.
I'll reemphasize my point of Soulblighter's life-extending rituals here, I think.
: I actually believe Balor did die in the early Sword Age
: as this fits in with an idea for the cycle I had and
: should really revise one of these days. And I also
: think when you cut off his head, he's dead but you
: throw his head away so that he can no longer be
: resurrected.
Do tell... But, then again, wasn't the sword age the age that started with the Great War? Also, certainly, if you cut off a normal person's head, he's dead. But if the head is still talking to you... that sort of suggests alive to me.
: Well, she looks pretty decrepit so she may just be very
: old but after the dream duel she's a smoking pile of
: ash . That seems pretty dead to me. Then there's the
: argument that when you're cast into the aether, you're
: not actually dead, but I see it that all archmages'
: souls are cast into the aether and can thus be revived
: if you have their old bodies, as well as a new host
: body. This makes the idea of resurrection much more
: plausible with Balor.
I was originally going to include the fact that she does look like a corpse, but that doesn't necessarily mean she's died before that time. Also, though I did forget about the pile of ash, does the game ever point out that the ash is her? (question = not rhetorical)
: Now Myrdred is one Fallen Lord I believe never died. This
: is mainly due to his physical form and character.
: After all, he managed to survive under the Dramus for
: 60 years.
: Well, it's not like he would be instantly resurrected. It
: would take a powerful archmage who wanted him back as
: well as his body. Bodies can be destroyed and Myrdred
: probably feared this fact just as the Watcher probably
: wanted to take advantage of it.
A powerful archmage. So. Since Balor essentially has six on his hands, with not too they have to actually be present to do, if one of them (to bend whom to his will, he went to a fair amount of trouble, btw) is killed by another one of them, and he has the ability to resurrect him, say, within the week, er, what would be the point of killing him in the first place? It might be kind of insulting to the first one, but, I think the enmity of the Watcher and the Deceiver goes a little past mere insults...
: So as an ancient evil, where is he during the Wolf Age?
: If he's not dead, is he imprisoned? Or just staying
: out of ther way... And of course Alric would want to
: kill him. Any enemies he could get rid off, even
: temporarily, would mean less to worry about during his
: assault on Balor.
It's an age of light, and since he's probably already had his ass whooped by Connacht, he's probably not all that eager to have it done again. So he's prbly hiding out, somewhere. And do we know exactly how long he's trapped under the Cloudspine? I forget, but if not, he could have been trapped there for half the cycle, for all we know.
Dom.
