: Or maybe....
: Forgive me for actually not knowing something for sure
: for once, but, does it every explicitly SAY anywhere
: that the Emperor of the last Cath Bruig empire died
: when Llancarfan fell?
The Journeyman manual description says the Fallen "destroyed Muirthemne and everyone in it." GURPS refers to the Herons being "despondent over the loss of their Emperor and honor." And then of course there's
http://myth.bungie.org/legends/journal/images/pregame/16pre2.GIF
unless that's not only a decoy Ibis Crown, but a decoy Emperor who was wearing it before Balor whacked him.
"Ceiscoran commissioned twelve clones of himself to make the Crown even harder to locate..."