: 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.
Although the hero of every age of light is different, every dark age is ushered in by the same beast - a transient divinity that seeks only conflict - The Leveler. And so Tireces returned as Moagim to end the Age of Reason - and Connacht, the great hero of the Wind Age, returned as Balor to lay waste to the greatest empire the world had ever known.
The Leveler was never killed. He was immobilized by sorcery, beheaded and burned at the stake in the Second Era. A thousand years later he was drawn and quartered on the plains before Ileum, the tireless horses dragging the pieces of his lifeless body to the four corners of the world. Again in the Fourth Era his body was destroyed by fire, his ashes mixed with salt and buried under the Mountains of Kor. Balor, Moagim and all those before them wore the Mantle of The Leveler.
Well since the Age of Reason is the second era..
Tireces was immobilized by sorcery, beheaded and burned at the stake
then Moagim shows up at the end to the second era, the end to the age of Reason and he was drawn and quartered and dragged by horses in the third era.. the wind age
then in the fourth era.. which is the wolf age/age of light Connacht is destroyed by fire and buried under Kor..
then Balor shows up
well there's your short version without all the BS moagim reborn shiat and without GURPS
-DS
