: Of course nobody reads this forum anymore but I just had
: a new Myth story idea for the first time and ages and
: don't want it lost to history...
: Something got me to thinking of old discussions about the
: Leveller and what exactly its name means,
: "leveling" as in demolishing, or
: "leveling" as in making even or balanced.
: It strikes me: what if it's both, as seen from the
: perspective of different races in the Myth world? From
: the perspective of whoever the dominant powers are,
: it's just something coming in to destroy all that they
: have built. But from the perspective of everyone
: living on the outskirts of those mighty civilizations,
: it's a force of equalization, knocking down the great
: powers and in doing so giving them on the fringes a
: chance.
: Which could be precisely how the Leveller entices any
: living beings like Ghols into its service: they don't
: want to live in a world of the dead, but they hate the
: Dwarves and feel oppressed by them and will happily
: work with whoever would stamp them out. Maybe likewise
: the Myrkridia, and the Orcs who I think became the
: fir'Bolg and bre'Unor (after some, the former, turned
: away from the Leveller, and some, the latter, remained
: in his service, under the name b'Y'laggo -- I've
: talked about that theory somewhere in recent decades
: haven't I?). Basically the same kind of thing that
: entices real humans into terrorism: the powers of the
: world are rigged against you, so fuckin' destroy 'em
: all.
: It would fit with themes Bungie had already established,
: as in with Thoth from Marathon siding with the Pfhor
: as soon as Durandal and the S'pht got the upper hand.
: Perhaps this is even the way that former great heroes are
: turned and possessed by the Leveller spirit. The
: empires they built become stagnant and oppressive, and
: with age and wisdom (as they would see it) they
: realize that what they did in their youth, out of good
: intent as it may have been, was in the end an evil,
: and now must be undone.
It's interesting theory. I remember Myth II epilogue explaining the cycle, and it talking about the lan "belong in turn to men, or to monsters" - which does suggest some kind of levelling in this sense.
