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Re: The Deceiver and Alric
Posted By: David Wellington (dialup-209.245.10.193.Denver1.Level3.net)
Date: 1/8/2000 at 1:16 p.m.
In Response To: Re: The Deceiver and Alric (SiliconDream=PN=)
And of course, he imprisons Alric... okay, I've read the entire thread, I don't need to be reminded that some people think Balor had nothing to do with that.
In the various supplementary bits and pieces we learn a lot about the Trow, and discover they aren't evil in any real way (well, not any more--not since they got bummed out after what they did to the Oghres). They've got their own mystical philsophy and this is what allows them to join the winning team in M2. They respect "furor poeticus", whatever that means (any suggestions? my Latin is a little rusty but it sounds like "poetic passion" to me) and built an actual civilization, and so on, and so on... perhaps, maybe just perhaps, Connacht decided they were too good to just be obliterated but too dangerous to let run around free, so he locked them up to keep them out of his way... then released them again when as Balor he lost the ability to tell good ideas from bad ones. "I need allies," he thinks, twisted in his little head, "I know! I've got some Trow in the back of the linen closet, I knew I was saving them for something!"
As for the Myrks, he had the Tain built specifically as a one-way portal. He didn't realize the Smiths had put so many backdoors in the thing (correct me if I'm wrong)--I'm pretty sure Soulblighter didn't realize it either (he was surprised when the Legion re-emerged) and SB was Connacht's right hand man when the thing was built. So in his view the Tain is a one-way ticket to death, or at least to some place nobody wants to go. He knew that if he asked his men to fight the Myrks they would do it but they would be slaughtered in the process (no dwarf mortar heroes at the time, maybe not even satchel charges--this was a thousand years ago and dwarf tech moves pretty quick)--this was a more expedient solution and while it might not have been as satisfying, it should have worked.
My whole theory hinges on what he does when he sees the myrk standard--he still thinks he's Light, and seeing that thing overpowers his destiny-inspired moral confusion. If someone can disprove this, they knock my whole theory on its head--and I will gladly give away my title (Head King Shaman Theory Maker, which, like Napoleon, I gave to myself).
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