: Case in point- Mazzarin was killed by seven waves of
: Thrall and the Watcher, and he was around during the
: Wind age, 431 to 1430 CE.
I thought you weren't using GURPS info? And those dates are AE, not CE. The CE calendar predates the AE calendar. All according to GURPS, of course - Myth itself makes no mention of an actual calendar, except in a beta Journeyman flavor text mentioning a date of 1100-something.
: You're assuming too much, just like Forrest.
Please stop doing that.
: As for the dream of unlife being in another's hands,
: there is nothing to support that at all, in any text;
Except the Myth II quote I still haven't the time to look up, that Soulblighter learned "Balor's greatest secret - the reanimation of the dead".
: Forrest's entire assertion that the Watcher is Bahl'al
: was based on hollow and flimsy testimony from a
: European TFL pre-release site, second-party and
: therefore inadmissible, and it was backed up by two
: mentions of one city being under siege.
Through all of this you seem to be overlooking one simple little thing...
I didn't start the Bahl'al = Watcher theory. I thought Bahl'al was Shiver, initially. Someone else proposed the Bahl'al = Watcher theory and I jumped on behind it because they made good counterarguments.
: That we haven't seen hide nor hair of Bahl'al, yet we do
: see tons of Thrall, is (by my hypothesis of course,
: since he's the only one who can produce them),
: evidence that he's in hiding, still manufacturing
: them, like some plant foreman or contractor general.
Except that it says that Soulblighter learned how to make them, and the Balor knew as well.
: If you want my full opinion, it is this: Bahl'al went to
: Si'anwon, which is under the Gjol River near the
: source, found the dream, but never left. Instead, he
: has been summoning they who bring him corpses, and in
: return, his thrall armies are theirs for whatever
: purpose they wish. This would explain not only where
: Si'anwon is, (at the bottom of the source of the
: Gjol), but why it's poisoned (all those corpses wont
: leave the river smelling like flowers. Bacteria are
: dangerous things, and they live in dead bodies, after
: all).
The Gjol river flows out of the Trow lands. The Trow water supply is so full of rusting iron that it's red. Rusty water isn't good for most living things. That is more clearly why the Gjol is poisoned.
: For what reason would Bahl'al be doing this? Who knows?
: Perhaps he's a necrophiliac and keeps only the finest
: specimens for himself, perhaps he feasts on the brains
: of dead geniuses, harboring their intellects. Perhaps
: he's a high priest of an ancient, long dead,
: voodoo-like sect that worshipped the dead- there's no
: way anyone can know except maybe Tuncer Deniz.
What is this thing with Tuncer you keep thinking of? Tuncer was not the primary writer of Myth's story - Jason Jones and Rob McLees were. I believe Tuncer was still just with IMG when Myth 1 was being made.
: Maybe he must stay there because the dream, as a physical
: object (as dispersal dreams are), is so huge, it can't
: be moved- like some variety of shrine or massive
: stone, or chunk of stainless steel. Trow are rock
: creatures, after all...
All Dreams are not necessarily physical objects that must be carried around, and "used up" to be cast. Despite the fact that several sources, most of which you are ignoring, state otherwise, wouldn't Bahl'al have to "make" a new Dream of Unlife each time he makes a Thrall, akin to how Shades and Avatara must get new energon cubes and such to cast each dispersal? It makes much more sense that energon cubes are simply manastones in the traditional fantasy sense, power sources for big casting spells, and that Dreams are a known thing, though perhaps learned from a physical object.
