: well, HGK even if you've been here long enough the
: obvious questions still pile up... they generate the
: responses though, keep the forum alive!
: In myth 3 in the seige level if you look out you'll
: notice a river and grass outside of the desert. if you
: go by myth 3 it seems that Soulblighter used the
: Sunhammer (Remember what it did to the trow and that
: was IN game... OUT of game in story things are always
: 100x more powerfull... except maybe balmung) well so i
: think we are to assume that Soulblighter used the
: Sunhammer on the cath bruig and instantly vaporized
: either just muirthemne (or if you beleive
: Soublighter's powers are godly) the entire empire...
: actually scratch that last bit, is't there a whole thing
: about Balor PERSONALLY invading capturing and
: destroying muirthemne with himself and his own
: personal army and after destroying muirthemne letting
: soulblighter loose (with his trusty sunhammer we could
: assume) and destroy the rest of the empire... I
: remember the heron guards being discraced because
: balor raised their city also they shouldn't be too
: discrased if they weren't around to 'deffend' their
: city if everyone got vapirized anyway...
: -General Pepper
: on making a long post thats basically from guesswork...
Muirthemne probably wasn't hit with the Sunhammer in MJ's storyline, since it was still partially intact when the Dark breached the walls (recall the picture of Balor standing over the emperor's body in a largely undamaged throne room.) Could be Balor learned to fine-tune its power, though. In the Bungie games, of course, the Sunhammer is not mentioned and we aren't told how Balor took Muirthemne.
I don't believe Soulblighter is ever implicated as having a particularly big part in the creation of the Barrier. The game manuals just say the Empire was "razed/put to the torch and blighted" by the Dark. GURPS may say Soulblighter did a lot of Bruig-massacring--can't remember and don't have it with me--but I don't think it says he actually did the desertifying.
