: Yeah, but you're not denying the existence of the cycles,
: are you? Or are you agreeing with me now, that the
: Levellers must act with restraint, because otherwise
: they could expunge all life with ease in the course of
: each Great War? Balor could have had his forces raze
: and blight the ground of the Province as they
: advanced, as he did to the Cath Bruig; he could have
: herded Wights into *all* the rivers and poisoned the
: entire water supply of the West; he could have headed
: to Tharsis and destroyed the whole world as
: Soulblighter tried to do. But he didn't. Because he
: didn't want to.
Because a fragment of the host usuly surrvives in the leaveler. Connocht was a great adminstrater. They dont get marks like that if they kill off an intire populatin at once. Also, if he was realy smart he would have realised that having a liveing, breeding poplulation under his thumb would provide a fairly constent stream of bodys for use as thrall, wights, and so on.
: Further, he must have at least appeared to show some
: restraint to his subordinates. Ghols and Shades both
: desire conquest, not total destruction; Myrdred and
: the Myrmidons probably would also prefer that the
: world not be ended. They wouldn't have followed him if
: they thought assisting him was equivalent to suicide.
I dont know about the Myrmidons. The hate all liveing things, and seem to welcome death when it comes in battle. BTW, does anyone know what happend to them? The cant have all been hunted down.
: And the entire story is told from the point of view of a
: Westerner. Of course it's going to espouse his view on
: the back of the box. That's the worldview you start
: from. C'mon, you've heard of surprise endings and plot
: twists.
Yes, and at the start of the story there had been no major counter attacks (to my knowlage anyway) the re-take any thing below Tyr. So the North would not have known about the liveing villages to the south.
: Krids probably aren't that frequent either, when a
: sorcerer isn't resurrecting their entire race at once
: in a localized area. And what if the bands (those who
: don't live in cities) *don't* stick together? Everyone
: runs in a different direction; the Krids catch and
: kill some of them, then move on. And babies can be
: muffled, although I'm not sure what that has to do
: with anything.
Yes, and sence moagim was killed after organising the krids they would have no controle, they where just more numoruse to start with and so humanity was unable to kill them off.
: As Dave's said, it doesn't need to be. Again, the Krids
: are animals. They don't figure out that, if they set
: up a supply route and start scavenging the country
: side, they can hold a years-long siege; they just get
: bored and hungry and go away. Or start squabbling
: amongst themselves.
: Can you arbitrarily decide that certain statements are
: correct while others are hyperbole? If I was asked to
: decide which statement--that the Krids have been
: around for a thousand years, or that no human had ever
: survived a battle against the Krids--was an
: exaggeration, I know which one I'd pick. Especially
: since we know the Krids penetrated into Muirthemne but
: were beaten back.
And to the statment about citys being self sufficent. Sence the krids would not have hung around the entire year, Mirthemni could have grown and stockpiled provisions for when the monsters did return. After a few generatons of this I would think they would get very good at it.
: No, most of the province and the Northern lands (as we
: know from Myth 2) remained populated and under Light
: control, until the very end of the war (and even then
: the Northern lands remained inviolate.)
Most of the provence, exept the major citys, did remain populated, but it was under dark rule. The only areas I can think of that may have been free are Scails, Strand and perhaps anyone who lived in the southern mountan range.
:(If you want to start an additional
: thread on whether or not America's global supremacy is
: really due to GURPS, I'm all for it.)
Well, lets get too it then!
: I had plenty of time to check over my response, but I'm
: just lazy. :-)
That must be going around=)
: --SiliconDream
Drunken Ghol
