: as far as we know alric isnt a savior though so I guess
: it works. Alric is just some guy who happened to save
: everyone... poor alric.
Which brings up a minor problem and a question.
Question first.
Is there actually supposed to be Dark Age, then Light Age, then Dark again, then another Light age etc. for all of time...(whether it starts with a Light Age or a Dark Age isn't the point, so no nitpicking of this, please)
Or
Is it supposed to be "The Age after the Light wins, the Dark does"...not "hardwired", but nigh inevitable. It can be prevented (what Alric did would qualify, by my reasoning)
The problem
How much more seriously could the Dark have won and left any of the Light around for the cycle to continue?
The Cath Bruig Empire is utterly destroyed in nearly every possible way. Only a few Heron Guards remain, really.
The Province has been ravaged twice in two-three generations...and is in miserable shape, even under the best of circumstances.
The Free Cities of the North...see the Province, I imagine.
The fir'bolg...are still around, but not exactly thriving.
The dwarves...same, although their rebuilding of Myrgard is not likely to have been easy.
So unless the Dark was supposed to wipe Mankind off the face of the world in this Age, it didn't exactly "lose", assuming the goal is to destroy rather than to completely anhiliate.
I'm fairly sure I've missed something.
The pattern is refered to as a "cycle", so presumably even if Alric has won (and this somehow is a Light age), we're going to still have to face some crap...which brings up the problem of what the -next- age (supposedly supposed to be Light) will be.
So, if someone has an idea for how the Dark could have "won" without destroying the Light, given how much damage it did in this "loss", share.
As far as I know, we don't really have much in the way of details regarding what the previous Dark Age(s?) were like, but if we do have something somewhere on that besides wild guesses and Myth 3, share that too. (Myth 3 not being entirely reliable, at best)
Seraph
