: Er, you seemed to have missed his point. The Wolf Age
: came *after* the Wind Age. Myrdred wasn't alive in the
: Wind Age, with Connacht and Damas and (in your theory)
: Shiver. He was yet to be born.
: The Wind Age was from the time Connacht showed up to when
: he turned into Balor. The Wolf Age was from when Balor
: showed up to when Alric showed up. We are currently in
: the Sword Age.
Can you explain the evidence for the age sequence? I personally thought it went: Axe, Sword, Wolf, Wind, with the first half of each age ruled by Light and the second half ruled by Dark. This is based on the fact that Mazzarin died in the Wind Age, but Alric remembers when Mazzarin was alive, and Alric's only thirty-something in the Great War, so the Wind Age must extend from Connacht's rise to Balor's death. Also, it's implied that The Deceiver is over a thousand years old, which makes the Wolf Age pre-Connacht.
So, based on which ones I think are "ancient evils" and "turned from the Light," early on you had Damas, The Watcher and the Voiceless One, all of them already evil (though Damas must have hidden it well), then Myrdred is born and turned to the Dark by one of them, then Connacht is born and becomes a great hero, then he turns into Balor, then he creates the Myrmidons and Shiver (assuming Shiver's a Myrmidon queen), then Mazzarin is born just a little too early to become the next great hero, then Alric gets born at just the right time, Mazzarin gets stomped by the Watcher, Alric kills everybody, happy happy.
Oh, and sometime after the ancient evils, the Faceless Man appears. You know, that's such an appropriate epithet for Soulblighter, I almost wonder if it was just an oversight on Bungie's part to link it to a different Fallen Lord. Maybe Soulblighter considered himself "reborn" after he took his face off, no longer Damas but instead the Faceless Man. Or maybe at some point Damas was killed and the Soulblighter we know, the Faceless Man, asssumed his identity.
--SiliconDream
