: Lessee. First, I doubt a precedent would be referred to
: as "uneasy" unless it was disturbingly
: unlike things as they were before. Second, to me, a
: Dark Lord's "fate mirroring that of his
: cause" means that it prevails when he prevails,
: and dies when he dies. So I think the Leveller was
: supposed to survive until the end of the Dark Age he
: initiates.
Ok, lets say right now, on the dawn of the year 2000, God (whichever you believe in) announces that he's going to start doing a similar cyclical thing on our world. This is the dawn of a Light era - some great hero is gonna come and vanquish all the evil in the world. A thousand years from now, when a Dark Lord shows up, we'll try to kill him of course. Say we do kill him, but the Dark continues to reign. Nothing has ever happened like this before, we don't know if it's the norm, but I would still call that an uneasy prededent, that we can't stop the Dark just by killing their leader.
Likewise, in Myth, this is the first time in recorded history that this has happened. People thought they could just kill Moagim and go on living their lives. But it didn't work that way - his cause went on even though he died. That set an uneasy precedent.
You grok?
: So it's quite possible that all the
: Levellers--perhaps because they were once good--would
: stop short of total genocide, and content themselves
: with tormenting the Light races under their heel.
However, GURPS also says that those who try to establish a lasting Dark rule instead of total destruction inevevitable fall in the process. Thus, it can't be the norm, because the cycle doesn't like it - the cycle strives for TOTAL destruction during the Dark ages.
: The ill-fated 2nd Leveller showed up before the dawn of
: the Light Age--according to GURPS, it was only then
: that he chose to attack the West openly.
Of course. Tireces was born before he came into public eye as a hero. He was turned to the Dark before Moagim attacked. Connacht was born before he came into public eye. Balor was around before he attacked. That's normal
: A very intriguing theory. I can find only two objections:
: 1) Why didn't Connacht make his suicide more of a sure
: thing and less damaging to the Light? He could have
: fought as incompetently as possible, doing very little
: damage to the Light armies and just managing to stay
: alive until the comet appeared, then allowing a dozen
: avatara and a thousand berserks to jump him. Or he
: could have not waged a war at all, just sat in a tower
: in the wilderness somewhere until the crucial moment,
: then blown his own head off with a time-delayed
: magical spell.
: 2) The comet seems to herald the appearance of the
: champion on the battlefield, not the moment when they
: first come into existence. Connacht was presumably no
: longer a child by the time the comet came and he
: started his war; Balor would most likely have already
: been possessed by the Leveller by the time the Great
: War's comet appeared.
Both good points; I don't know how to refute them.
