: Please read my responses before you disagree with them.
: If you had done so, you would have noticed that I was
: not talking about Balor or Connacht or anyone
: /ordering/ Bahl'al to search for the dream of unlife,
: but rather that it would have been far more likely
: that he would have done it on his own initiative,
: being an evil magalomaniac who knows vast amounts of
: power when he sees it.
"Your timescale argument assumes that Bahl'al searched for the dream of unlife because Balor ordered him to, and not because he was simply a power-hungry maniac, without which assumption there's nothing to tie Bahl'al's actions to the time of Balor, and hence nothing to separate him from The Watcher."
and again:
"Your timescale argument assumes that Bahl'al ... because Balor ordered him to."
Did i miss something there?
While we both agree that Bahl'al likely sought the dream of unlife for his own kicks, you were reading into my hypothesis some weird idea of Balor ordering Bahl'al to seek it, which is simply *not* *true.*
My timescale argument (against the Balor-employment idea) is as follows: Mazzarin, killed in the Wind Age, was murdered by Thrall and the Watcher, therefore it is necessary that thrall and their manufacturer predate Mazzarin's demise, therefore, because Connacht was of the Wolf age, Bahl'al predates him by at least a few years and therefore Balor by at least 1000 years.
I'd like to get back on to the same page here, if I could. Perhaps if you could restate your counterpoint from msgid 21307, we could sort this whole thing out, because it sure does appear to me that you're saying that *I'm* saying that Balor said to Bahl'al to find the dream, which I didn't nor could or would.
Never once did I say that Balor ordered Bahl'al to find the dream. Someone else, however, did mention that before this whole fracas ensued, I believe.
