: 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.
I'd say that Balor fought his way through Muirthemne with his army got to the throne room, discovered that the crown was the wrong one and then in rage used the Sunhammer, and really used it, so much that it changed the climate of the Downs and the Sunhammer was destroyed.
-zeph
