: For the most part, these two questions i have are
: unrelated.
: First off, why the hell does it say Moagim in the middle
: of one of the frames of the "Ground Zero"
: comic? Am I nuts or isn't that the leveler that came
: before Balor, as mentioned in the epilogue? Why the
: hell was it there?
Nobuddy Nose. I thought perhaps Rabican was thinking of Moagim because he'd somehow been defeated by vanity just as Shiver was. GURPS tells a different story--it says Shiver's "mental assault conjured a mocking image of Moagim...she seemed to taunt him with some relationship between Moagim and current events." Make of that what you will.
: Second, If Alric is the hero who freed the land from
: wicked things, isn't he destined to be the next
: leveler? I'm puzzled a lot on that one. Since Connacht
: slew Moagim, the leveler before balor, whom he
: eventually becomes, wouldn't alric, having slain
: Balor, be doomed to the same plight? And if so, why
: the hell isn't anyone in the world of myth figuring
: this out? You'd figure there'd be some extremist heron
: guard faction that would want to kill Alric so he
: doesn't become the leveler.
According to GURPS, quite a few people are worried about this. However, the Light is still incredibly fragile, as Soulblighter's attack proved. Whatever danger Alric will pose to the Light a thousand years in the future, right now he's the only thing keeping it together and protecting it from Dark incursions. Besides, who's going to try and kill him? Even the most suicidally brave Heron Guard knows he doesn't have much of a chance against the single most powerful archmage in the world. A coalition of fifty Heron Guards backed by Myrdred, maybe. But no murderous conspiracy is going to show its hand until it's got the power to attain its goal.
Also, Alric isn't necessarily going to be the next Leveller. According to the Great Cycle (at least as GURPS portrays it), Alric shouldn't even have survived the Great War. Balor should have killed him, ushered in a thousand years of Dark rule, and *then* a hero should have arisen, freed the land from wicked things, and gone on to become the next Leveller. The cycle's all fux0red now, and no one knows what'll happen.
--SiliconDream
