: Now, there have been plenty of people who have argued
: that the Faceless man is most probably Soulblighter;
: and this does make some sense; after all, Soulblighter
: has only half a face, and he even has only half of one
: for a reason which is certainly good enough to title
: somebody over. However appealing this theory may be to
: some, it's completely and flat out wrong. Why, you
: ask? Here's an excerpt from the "Names of the
: Fallen" theory in the Delusions section that
: explains: I originally began thinking about this back
: when Josh & Dan's "Myth's Story" site
: (the content of which is now part of this site)
: pointed out the existance of Myth:TFL pre-release info
: at Eidios' web site (Eidios was Bungie's European
: publisher). On this site were given six names for the
: six Fallen Lords: Soulblighter
: The Voiceless One
: Bahl'al
: The Deceiver
: Bonesplitter
: The Faceless Man
: The first three were listed as "ancient evils",
: while the latter three were "turned from the
: light".
OK, but Soulblighter *was* turned from the Light. He was Damas, hanging around with Connacht...actually, I can't find any information on when Connacht was last seen or Balor was first seen, or when the Wolf Age ended and the Sword Age began.
The point is, I never thought of him as ancient in any way. Older than Nine Skull Crocodile, but many times younger than The Watcher. He's just this guy, you know? No more than you'd expect from any other guy who lived for hundreds of years and dedicated all that time to gathering power and secret knowledge in order to destroy the world.
The point is, the ancient Eidos page is hearsay rather than Bungie canon, and if Soulblighter isn't an ancient evil, then we can't even hope that Eidos got it right.
Hmm, hearsay...maybe you can think about it as the kind of garbled knowledge that trickled down to the westernmost villages in the first years of the war.
: he waits, and eventually the Nine comes and digs him
: out, figuring he'll be so incredibly pissed off at
: all the Fallen that he'll help them entirely--they
: don't count on him still being all buddy-like with the
: Deceiver though, or on his magic specialties. They
: don't tell the common troops that he's a Fallen Lord,
: because they'll be all like "What the hell are
: you thinking?" kinda thing, and so they just
: refer to him as the Head, without knowing whose Head.
: You can figure the rest out from there. Keep in mind,
: I'm not saying this is exactly the way things
: happened, but it's a possible scenario; and I'm saying
: the basics are probably the most likely I've yet seen,
: concerning the Head's identity and past.
Alric in "Out of the Barrier" didn't suspect that the Head was a Fallen Lord, did he?
If the Head was defeated by Balor before the West had even heard of him, then why would we ever hear about their being six Fallen Lords? It would be easier to believe that the Fallen Lords were household names just like the Nine, and high-ranking and educated men in the Legion could tell you what good guys where were currently fighting each one.
Does any theory explain how exactly the Nine find out about the Head and dig him up?
