: All of these ideas seem to say that the head either
: vanished or was defeated by the avatara. How
: unimaginative ;). Here's my theory, but it probably
: won't work out quite right, but here goes.
: First of all, the winning endgame pics of Deceiver,
: Summoner, and Murder of Crows show the deceiver
: wielding something that is not his scepter.
Actually, this appears to be his sceptre more so than the one with the mounted head. p. 29 of the myth manual clearly shows the big D holding his sceptre, with the skull penetrated by it.
: In all
: other pictures of the deceiver, he is holding a
: scepter with a head MOUNTED on it. In these three
: picture the top of the head is being penetrated by the
: top of the stick, and the stick itself is much smaller
: than the other.
The stick is much smaller, but also in the M1 manual we can see that the sceptre is wrapped with something, could this just have been something that broke off after it was frozen? Or maybe he never really had his real sceptre, just wanted to get a few decades of rest.
: The deceiver is crossing the stair of grief, where he
: meets up with a group of people who are under the
: influence of the head, and carrying the head with
: them. Our favorite Fallen lord knows this quite well,
I like the Watcher better.
: and like all evil guys wants more power. What better
: way to get power than to control such a powerful
: entity. After a nice long battle with the head, the
: deceiver ends up with a charred nasty skull which he
: promptly skewers with a handy stick, and enchants so
: that it will help him.
Makes sense I guess.
: Soon a warlock arrives and tells Myrdred that there is an
: Alric approaching. The deceiver figures that if alric
: is here, it must mean he killed balor (Alric is the
: only remaining avatara, and since D just lost a bunch
: of his power, something must be up). D know's he's not
: going to be able to win, having just used up all of
: his major energy on the head, so he hides his new
: scepter away where only he can find it, and whips out
: his old one, does battle with Alric, and is
: imprisoned.
Well, we know that the head "promptly disposed of the rest of the Nine," so maybe the head somehow tricked them into carrying it to the big D, and he was the one who finally took the rest of the Nine out?
: 60 years later he's awakened, and has one of his locks
: dig up his newer scepter and get it to him. He hides
: this scepter with some magic. Alric knows the old
: scepter, because he had been captured by D in TFL
: during the hero missions. The D knows that Alric
: knows, and makes sure Alric never sees his cool new
: scepter, which he uses whenever Alric's around.
: As we can see from the win screen of Murder of crows, the
: D beat SB with the Head scepter, and in the end of
: Summoner he cracked the summoner up with the Head
: also.
: There ya have it. feel free to worship this idea :)
Another question tho, in looking at the "Murder of Crows" level, it says that Myrdred "struck down more than a dozen of the enemy with his magic" before he was caught. This seems to IMPLY that he has other magical powers, besides moving at odd angles, brainwashing people, and paralyzing them with his sceptre. But he probably just brainwashed a couple mauls and spanked a fetch or two, leaving the rest to the mauls.
More meaningless ramblings (aka. Forrest fodder)
