: My feeling is that the krids were a problem all over. I'm
: pretty sure that at the time at least the Province and
: most likely all of the west was under Muirthemne's
: control as well, and therefore our pointy-hatted
: buddies from Madrigal would be subjects of the empire.
: Why do I think this? Despite the fact that the West is
: obviously an absolute monarchy, the big cities are
: called the Free Cities, which means that the rest of
: the continent was at some point Not Free. The Province
: could be the Province of any given country--it's
: halfway between the superpowers, so to speak--but if
: you have Free Cities you have Not-So-Free Cities,
: which means somebody was in charge.
Here's my thoughts: You had the Cath Bruig Empire, which was an empire, which means a big monarchy uniting lots of smaller governments - that spread over most of mankind. Then you had this alliance of smaller monarchies in the west which called themselves the Province, though they were still part of the Empire. The king of the Province (as opposed to any particular city-state of the Province) served as the major balancing power to the Emperor of the Cath Bruig. When everything east of the Cloudspine was destroyed, you were left with the Province, and some other city-states in the north which, not being part of the Province, were each individual and entirely self-governing, ie Free. Hence, the Free Cities of the North, as opposed to the allied cities of the Province.
: We do know that Rabican had the best combat skills--he
: was probably the Light equivalent of Soulblighter in
: this at least. I've always felt it was kind of fishy
: that you would send your weakest magician to fight the
: enemy's (arguably) strongest magician, unless this was
: some kind of elaborate trap, where she was lured into
: thinking she'd get an easy victory...
Shiver was said to be the greatest combat magician of the Fallen Lords. Likewise, Rabican was the most combat-oriented of the Fallen Lords. Pitting the two against eachother seems perfect.
: But hey, Myrdred and Soulblighter don't seem to have any
: distinct animosity in the Great War (I'm sure you'll
: correct me if I'm missing something, but it seemed
: like the big conflict was Deceiver vs. Watcher, and SB
: just took advantage of their squabbling to move his
: own troops into position). It seems to come from the
: D's supporting Alric. This I can understand; they were
: allies under Connacht (whether or not they fought
: together), they were allies under Balor, but when SB
: makes his own play the D switches teams. That would
: bug me a little, too.
Myrdred was a good guy up until Balor's return. Damas went bad long before. Chances are Myrdred wouldn't like Damas after he turned ritualistic-murderer, and even when bent to Balor's will and forced to team up with him, wouldn't like him much.
Funny thing; The Watcher, Soulblighter, and Shiver were all Ancient Evils. Myrdred is the only Turned From The Light that we've met. I wonder how well he got along with The Lurker and The Faceles Man, others who were more recently Turned From The Light.
: You're right, there should be some mention of the D
: serving Connacht. The fact that there isn't bothers
: me. The fact that there's no mention at all of what he
: did during the Wolf Age makes me think I can do as I
: please. For Asylum purposes I concede there is no
: proof of a link between Myrdred and Connacht, though I
: wish there was. I do think he would have fought the
: krids, however, and probably the Trow as well.
And before someone mentions that the Trow wouldn't like him if he fought them, the Trow seems to respect anyone who can KIK their asses but still spares them, as Connacht did. So if Myrdred worked with Connacht, they would likely respect him for his power and restraint, hence calling him a being of "poetic fury".
: Not unless you know how to invoke the Internal Game
: Epilogue tag. I want a postscript on my scenario but
: it seems that the leveller speech at the end of M2 is
: hard-coded to only come up when you win level 25.
Maybe edit the Internal Game Epilogue tag itself? Mb not the stli tag, but look for another Internal Game Epilogue somewhere. It might have settings as to when it plays. Include that modified tag in your plugin and when you play your maps, it'll play using your modified epilogue; but when you play Bungie maps it'll still use the Bungie epilogue.
