: Also, you must think that the Leveler has something to do
: with a Hero coming every one-thousand years and
: ridding the land of the dark. I mean, everything seems
: like clockwork and (although I'm not too familar with
: Marathon) I'm pretty sure one of those AIs was the
: Leveler "the man grafted into machine" and
: the main character (who we play) was the Hero, so this
: means the pattern is still alive thousands of years
: later. You said earlier that the Leveler has nothing
: to do with the Hero, he just over-takes him. But
: doesn't it seem odd that there is always a Hero rising
: to counter the Dark? If we were to believe the Leveler
: simply means "he levels everything to the ground
: and destroys all" then why would a Hero come
: every one thousand years? It just seems that there are
: two degrees to the Leveler, one good and evil, and
: they both rotate to keep the balance, not just one
: Leveler who takes over a hero who just happens to save
: the planet. It's to perfect for that to happen, the
: Hero has to be integrated into the Leveler somehow.
: now that I've repeated myself a few times... I don't
: know, I can't quite word correctly what I'm thinking,
: so you'll have to work with that. :)
I think there certainly is an anti-Leveler force to the cycles, but the Leveler is the epitomy of evil, seeking simply chaos and destruction, and nothing more. The Myth II epilogue states this. We don't know what the Light side of the cycle is, of if there is a "Light side" like the Leveler is the "Dark side"; it may just be fated that the Leveler is destroyed on schedule every time, or maybe the Leveler only has enough power to destroy for 500 years and then leaves the body of the great evil, allowing him to be destroyed by the Great Hero.
I suspect the Head is responsible for all this, though the only evidence I have is a quote from Homecoming: "The Head appears to know something about everything, and now it has us looking for an artifact called the Total Codex." And we all know, the Codex tells everything about everyone, so the Head must be somehow tied to it; perhaps he wrote it.
I wonder what the Codex would have to say about the Head.
