: i agree, the fallen lord thing never quite seemed to fit
: in with myth the way i thought it happened. you are
: right that there is no evidance that they are the same
: person. buy, there is little evidance to prove that
: they are not.
: ps. does anybody think that bahl'al does not sound like a
: human name.
: think....maybe, bahl'al is a trow priest, one of the last
: or only surviving ones. or he is a calleach.
While it is impossible to prove a negative (in the field of logic as a science), there IS one thing that stands out about this, like I mentioned before:
There were thrall in M2, by the thousand.
From the journal, level of 'Gonen's Bridge':
"The army of the Dark is upon us and it has no end. They march toward us, shoulder to shoulder, for as far as the eye can see. The very earth must be crying out at the damnable weight of them."
Given that it is necessary to have the dream of unlife to raise thrall, where on earth did all these come from, if the Watcher was Bahl'al and therefore dead? If they were around during TFL, why were they not used? Seems to me an army of Thrall in the hundreds of thousands would be enough to defend Rhi'anon quite easily.
The answer is that they were raised after the death of Balor, by Bahl'al, who is not the Watcher, who is dead.
When it comes down to it, that's all there is to it- without Bahl'al, the world's supply of Thrall will be exhausted quickly (they are dead bodies, after all- they don't have an unlimited storage life. eventually they will degrade to dust or another variety of corpse).
Myth III depends on the idea that the Watcher is Bahl'al, so does GURPS, neither of which I like anyway.
Fortunately, I imagine that a fix to the story for M3 would be rather easy.
