: Sorry, guys. I don't mean to fill up the forum like this,
: but I can't seem to get the response button to work.
: So I'll just cut and paste and pretend this is a
: response.
: I'm no longer sure that the Head was trying to break the
: cycle, in the new light that GURPS sheds upon it. I
: doubt Soulblighter had any potential to hurt the
: cycle; rather, his mere existence assisted it.
: Remember that, according to the cycle, Balor and Alric
: were supposed to kill each other and the lesser Fallen
: Lords were supposed to preside over a millennium of
: Dark domination, until another Hero and Leveller
: arose. The best way of hurting the cycle, then, would
: be to make it a Light Age and not a Dark Age--make
: sure as many Avatara as possible survive, and as many
: Fallen Lords as possible are killed. Neither the Head
: nor Soulblighter seem to be aiming for this.
Actually, the best thing to do would be to get rid of as many of the Fallen Lords as possible, and make all the nine survive except Alric. If Alric survived, he could come back as the Leveller next time.
: Agreed. The Head wanted Alric dead.
See above for reason.
If Shiver were the most powerful of the Fallen, she would hardly be expendable.
What if the Head was only trying to get Alric killed, and the rest of the nine died as a result of the cycle? It was supposed to be going into a dark age, so luck was not on their side. We are never told how he double-crossed them.
