: With respect to information about the Head, the journal
: writer is very common indeed. He wasn't anywhere near
: Madrigal through most of the war, and all information
: he had about the Head was third- or fourth-hand. He
: wouldn't know anything special about the Head that the
: intellectual community as a whole (the folks that
: wrote the manual, I mean), wouldn't know.
The journal writer was privy to such information as the dwarves telling about the attack on Stoneheim. I dunno, he didn't seem like way upscale, but definetly above average. Just like the second journal writer. A very well-respected member of the Legion, plain and simple.
: I'm pretty sure the Head got more than just two of the
: Nine killed. Chances are it knew they'd get trapped in
: the Tain, which got two other Avatara killed, and from
: the narrator's statement that "the Head had been
: double-crossing them since..." I'd infer that it
: caused multiple other defeats of the Nine as well.
I don't think the Head actually had more chances of offing the Nine than we know of. Did Murgen and Cu Roi go to Forest Heart because the Head told them to?
Peter Isotalo
