: Two mentions of a battle at a single city do not a
: correlation make; there are two mentions of a battle
: at Tyr- that's all, and that doesn't make them the
: same events.
But if you consiter the fact that Bungie, the guys who's info you are baseing all of your facts on, was trying to give the playing a connection with the charicters who were *in the game* right then, than it is fairly safe to assume that they were refering to the same personality.
Now, you might say that there is a difference between Myth TFL and Soulblighter, but in the second installment I feel that they probably included that flaver text to give the returning players some familerarity with the continuing plotline, and new comers some connection to the previous game.
: The fact is that Bahl'al's action may
: have taken place in a previous era, from any time
: after he first raised the Thrall.
Well, his action did occure in a previous era... just before the Wind Age, right? (it's been awhile)
: Furthermore, because Mazzarin was killed by Thrall and
: the Watcher, it is necessary that Bahl'al's seeking of
: the dream of unlife come far before Mazzarin's death.
: Because this event occurred before even Connacht was
: born (some time in the Wind Age), there is no way
: Balor could have ordered Bahl'al to seek the Dream of
: Unlife, a prerequisite for the implementation of
: Thrall. This makes it possible and probable that the
: fall of Tyr (due to Bahl'al) occurred in some other
: era entirely, not in the sword age, as is listed in
: the Encyclopedia. Reasonable doubt is plentiful here.
I don't agree. To my own knowlage (and I'm probably laying a trap for myself here) it was never actually said that Balor ordered Bahl'al to find the dream, just that he WAS searching for it at some point in time after the Trow City had been plunged into the Deep.
: Second point: Nowhere else do the games refer to the
: other evil characters in such a duplicitous manner as
: the supposed Watcher/Bahl'al, that is, the game never
: refers to Soulblighter as Damas in the contemporary
: era, nor does it call the Deciever Myrdred or Shiver
: Ravanna; only the characters in game speech refer to
: one another in that manner, and only the alternate
: unit descriptions use them, and then only rarely. To
: reiterate: while Damas and Connacht are named multiple
: times in flavor texts, they are spoken only as heroes,
: before they turned. Bahl'al was doing evil things
: (raising the dead) from the very start, and thus had
: nothing to be turned from (ie- no reason to become The
: Watcher).
This may be streching a point, but the very fact that the Watcher is so old would open him up to duplicity. Baring that, we can always go back to the similaritys to the Black Company, where different sorcerors changed names several times.
I find that I run out of time where I am. I'll finish up here later.
Drunken Ghol
