: 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.
Hi Seraph! Glad someone else is still reading here.
Thinking further on this idea: what if there were a series of stories told from the perspective of these peripheral races, going back in time:
- the events leading up to TFL from the perspective of Ghols
- a thousand years earlier from the perspective of Myrkridia
- a thousand years earlier from the perspective of ???
- a thousand years earlier from the perspective of Orcs
- culminating in a thousand years before that, four thousand years before TFL, just prior to the dawn of the First Era, from the perspective of … Humans, who however are not the main “dark” race (not that Ghols are the main dark race in TFL either), but only a minor ally on the side of the Oghres, challenging the dominance of the Trow, and winning… well not the Oghres, but humans at least beginning their rise to dominance.
And y’know, thinking about how the Trow recount stories of new races rising to challenge them every thousand years, and that we know a close relative of Humans, the Oghres, were among those, makes me think I might really be on to something with this theory that the Leveller and the forces of the “dark” are just whoever is marginalized in a given era doing absolutely anything in their power — often far too much, like terrorist — to topple the dominant powers that keep them down.
