: I got a mail from an old Myther friend Santiago, who sent
: in some evidence about Shiver. He also asked me to
: change his email link on the level-names Relics page.
: While I was there a made a couple changes to reflect
: new knowledge and such.
: Anyway, he writes...
: "Shiver is almost definitely the Voiceless One.
: Several
: pieces of evidence support this. Examining the tags in
: Myth II reveals that mana must have been added after
: part of the development process was already underway.
: Evidence such as the presence of an ammo icon for
: Myrkridian Giants suggest this, as do the presence of
: three artifacts intended to supply Shiver with dreams.
: They're not actual artifacts, in that they have no
: sequences and are not meant to be picked up, but
: rather granted and taken away by scripts. Although
: Shiver's attacks in the final version are the Whisper
: Dream, the Ripple Dream, and the Defense Spell, the
: artifacts grant the Whisper Dream, the Scream Dream,
: and the Silent Dream, the latter two which do not
: exist in the tagset. However, these three names all
: deal with voices or the lack thereof, making for a
: strong connection to the name the Voiceless One.
Oddly enough, this is not at all how GURPS describes the Whisper Dream. In fact, it says her Myth 2 incarnation didn't have it.
: "Additionally, GURPS Myth, which I consider only
: pseudo-canon in that it has several outright errors
: and contradicts the games in places,
What all have you found? I noticed it says the Deceiver may have used the confinement dream on the Watcher, when TFL says it was Connacht.
It says the dream of unlife was never discovered, when there are undead everywhere. Perhaps you can create undead without it, but that's not what the name implies.
It says the binding and confinement dreams are the same thing.
Tramist's mirror=Trabist's mirror.
Says the Smiths are human, despite the evidence that at least some of them were dwarves.
It makes no mention of the Deceiver's death.
It refers to Shiver's original form as both beautiful and bestial, though it appears to be neither.
It says Soulblighter may be a re-incarnation of Damas, even though they are identical.
: As to the Lurker, who has not been
: mentioned in prior sources, she gets only a paragraph,
: though her gender is given, making it unlikely that
: she's the Faceless Man, though facelessness is more
: sensible a trait for one known as the Lurker than
: bonesplitting would be."
It lists plant-control as one of her abilities. Perhaps she had something against animal life.
