: The whole Light/Dark distinction is largely a convention
: of the game meant to suggest who is on which side
: during the various games. Things in Myth are always
: much more complicated than whether one gets skulls or
: shields in one's status bar--for instance, look at the
: Deceiver, who started out as one of the ultimate good
: guys (as a lieutenant of Connacht), then was perverted
: by Balor (or, as my personal theory holds, merely
: stuck with his old boss) and finally recruited back to
: the Light in time to kill Shiver and cripple
: Soulblighter. When the Trow get involved the level of
: complexity goes up about six notches. They were among
: the first intelligent beings on the Mythworld and
: their strong sense of their own history means that
: reductionist tags like "good" and
: "evil" are meaningless for them. Once they
: were a race of genocides, more evil than Hitler; then
: they were peaceful penitents; then they were locked
: away beneath their city; then they were twisted to
: Balor's cause; then they refused to help Soulblighter
: because they didn't like his ethics; finally they were
: recruited by the Deceiver and became one of the most
: powerful weapons of Alric's army. As you can see,
: calling them "Light" just doesn't cut it.
: As to why the FG's hate them, I would have two guesses:
: one is that the Forest Giants (as a race) are older
: than human beings, and therefore it is possible the
: Forest Giants fought the Trow back in the bad old days
: when the Trow would eliminate any new intelligent
: creatures that came along. This would lead to an
: abiding hatred--the Trow weren't very loveable back
: then and the only way to survive in those days was to
: fight them tooth and claw.
: The second theory would be that it's a result of the
: Great War, when four Trow generals invaded Forest
: Heart (the FG homeland) and tried to wipe out the
: Forest Giants. The Trow were under Balor's control at
: the time, but the Forest Giants might not see that as
: a valid excuse. The hatred could be further stoked by
: the fact that after winning the battle at Forest Heart
: the FGs accompanied Alric on his campaign to take
: Rhi'annon, the Trow Capital, so that both sides could
: see the other as remorseless invaders and despoilers.
: Neither of these may be even close to the real reason,
: but I hope they at least suggest how grudges are
: possible in the Mythworld that have nothing to do with
: the Light and the Dark.
lol
yeah I was afraid that this would happen someday
=)
