: What Jason says in that interview about the cycle
: directly contradicts what GURPS Myth says. He refers
: to it working in half millenia: first half dark,
: second half light. I had thought what GURPS said
: seemed screwy, as it didn't jibe with the Myth II
: epilogue. The old Heron says that Soulblighter may
: have broken the cycle. According to the GURPS Myth
: timeline, the cycle was already broken at that point
: and he should have known. I'm sending another errata
: report.
Ack! Laven! That goes and throws EVERYTHING into chaos again! The GURPS solution was so nice and clean and explained everything....
[gasps]
Pull yourself togther man!
[slaps self]
Ok, ok... what do we know? Tireces killed an old Leveller. GURPS says he was the one who was beheaded & burnt. Then Tireces became Moagim. GURPS says Moagim was the one who was draw & quartered. That's all fine, but now things get screwy. TFL says Connacht killed Moagim - GURPS says Connacht killed a guy nicknamed "Moagim reborn", and had him burnt & buried under Kor.
If we go with the strict game statements, then the shortest timeline would be that someone beheaded & burnt some Leveller in the Second Era, became evil and was drawn & quartered by Tireces in the Third Era, who became Moagim, and was burnt & buried by Connacht in the Fourth Era. If we assume these things were done in the BEGINNING of their respective Eras (ie, Tireces kills Leveller at dawn of Third Era, becomes Moagim, and is killed at the dawn of the Fourth Era), then the numbering corresponds with GURPS.
But the naming doesn't. Connacht is said to have been the great hero of the Wind Age in TFL - in GURPS they say he ruled over the Wolf Age. This is understandable; Connacht saved the world at the end of the Wind Age and ushered in the Wolf Age. But then the horrible Wind Age must have been the Era ushered in by Tireces, as both Tireces and Moagim were around in the Third Era!
Unless Ages and Eras don't correspond exactly, as we once thought. In which case, the Age of Reason and the Wind Age were each one half of the Third Era, and the Wolf Age was the first half of the Fourth Era... but then the Sword Age must be the latter half of the Fourth Era! And if we are just at the end of the Sword Age (or the start of the next Era), as we must be for Connacht's feat to be a thousand years ago, then the past 500 years should have been under Balor's rule!
Obviously, things are a horrible mess now! My take on it all is that Bungie intended it to be the way Jason says in that article, then changed it as things evolved, and when they had to lay things out in GURPS they did so in such a way that it all makes sense. The ONLY way to really make sense of it all is with what GURPS says. And if GURPS got the entire nature of the world of Myth wrong... well then, we might as well throw the whole book out.
