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Forrest starts talking Myth again

Posted By: Superfoborg (64.136.147.170)
Date: 10/18/2005 at 8:36 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Theory *PIC* (HorusReborn)

: Seven Star Wolf, playable character in TFV :P

Not to piss on anybody's hard work, but that's not a valid Heron Guard name.

Heron names follow the Maya calendar format (which is apparently identical with the Acit El calendar of the Cath Bruig), at least for the second two terms.

See the first table on this page for approximate translations of Mayan names.

http://www.michielb.nl/maya/calendar.html

This isn't the page I was looking for but the closest I could find. The translations Bungie uses are different, i.e. "White Flower" for "Water Lily", which is often also translated as "Lotus", or "Skull" for what this page calls "Death head".

For a list of Bungie names to guide you, see:

http://myth.bungie.org/legends/encyclopedia/who.html#herons

Or, just keep it that way. Not like anybody but me will notice, and I don't play anymore, anyway.

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On an entirely unrelated note, I was thinking something the other night. Plenty of people have said that Myth 3 seems far too grandiose, and doesn't have the dark and desperate feel to it that the original Myth had. Reading the TFL prologue again the other night, it struck me, the writer there had heard such grandiose stories of Connacht too, and said that "I'm reminded with a quick look over our ranks that we are not the brave Connacht's army, but a scruffy rabble in the service of The Nine. I doubt Connacht will swoop in to save us."

It sounds to me, from beyond the fourth wall, that Bungie was foreshadowing here - it turns out, no, in fact, Connacht was up against just the same kind of enemy, and this is just history repeating itself all over again. His army could have been just as ragtag. Myth 3 was, admittedly by itself, retold from some grand shrine to Connacht that was uncovered in Muirthemne. It would make sense that it would present him as a knight in shining armor, effortlessly tromping his way over the Myrkridia with big flashy weapons and thunder and lightning.

Anyway, the point I'm getting at is, there's a story that hasn't been told here yet - the REAL story of Connacht and his eventual triumph over the forces of the Dark. Unaggrandized, unfiltered, told from the first person from someone who lived through it, just like in TFL. Don't tell it from Connacht's point of view, following the great and powerful leader around - tell it from the point of view of some grunt whose whole platoon gets eaten by Myrkridia and who for the longest time is just doing his damned to survive long enough to get back inside the walls of Muirthemne, the one great walled remnant of human civilization, though certainly other people barely manage to live in desperate isolation outside of it. Perhaps that's where our story-teller comes from - some poor barbarian village that got ravaged by the Myrkridia, this ragtag group of survivors on a last-ditch effort to reach Muirthemne before they get eaten alive, maybe coming across other villages or survivors of other villages along the way.

Present the world of that time as Bungie originally portrayed it - blackened and desolate, living under the long shadows of Myrkridian battle standards, the Trow empire "technically" dominating the entire continent, with Myrkridia and Humans mere insects scampering under their feet, Bahl'al stalking the lands raising the many dead to serve his mad whim, and a looming shadow rising in the west... a dark and menacing figure who some say may be Moagim, reborn. Unexpectedly, out of this madness comes the hero Connacht, who eventually leads a desperate effort to drive back the forces of the Dark and return Light to the lands of men...

I once had such a story outlined, for the expanded version of the Mill contest winner "Under Myrkridian Standards", which I helped write. I'd love to see this "alternate" version of the Wind Age / Wolf Age told, but I don't have the time to write it myself. However, I know there are many decent fan-fiction writers here, and I would be willing to help get the outline and details down right, if someone else is willing to do the bulk of the actual writing. We could "set the record straight", so to speak, as to what really happened in the time of Myth 3.

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