: I did read your first message, and no offense, but there
: are enough grammatical weirdnesses in it that I think
: I can be excused for misunderstanding your meaning.
: :-)
: What's wrong with things being "even more
: insane"? As long as The Head is lying to and
: double-crossing everyone, he might as well lie about
: where the armor is and who has it. Alternatively, he
: might be telling the truth as he knows it--if he's
: been buried in the ground for a thousand years or so,
: then there's been plenty of time for Balor to grab the
: armor (or even for Connacht to, before he became
: Balor) without The Head being aware of it. All he'd
: know is that it was out there the last time he was
: aboveground.
: You can trawl through the archives to see our discussion
: of the whole "invulnerability" thing. My
: basic view is that you're allowed to call someone
: invulnerable when what you actually mean is
: "invulnerable, except when zapped with an
: uber-powerful Eblis stone and whacked on by a dozen
: claymores for several minutes." And remember that
: the armor itself was undamaged; the zerks just got
: their swords in the crack between Balor's helmet and
: the neck of his armor.
: --SiliconDream
You know, if anyone ever does a history of what we talked about here I would bet we have spent more time discussing the head than anything else.
May as well add to it.
From what I can tell from recent post, many are of the opinion that THE Head is Segoth, son of Wyrd. According to legend, Segoth was beheaded by the dark gods, probobly the Levealer.
My question is, how is it possable to decapitat a god? The question would not have botered me if I thought the line was not to be taken litteraly. But if The Head is whats left of SEgoth the line must be treated as a litteral fact.
Has anyone here not read "Water Sleeps"? If you have not, and wish to keep everything a suprise I suggest you read no further.
Near the end of the book Goblin is killed when he attacks Kina, a comatoce (sota, the whole deal is weird) sorcoress of unimaginable power (like the leveler, or wyrd) who is as old as the world itself.
The thing is, Kina has become a major player in the religions of the region the book is set in. Many legends speek of her battles with other "gods", who I assume where also of an arch-mage calaber not seen again untill the Dominater ruled.
Kina is the godes of Death. But she was once human.
So I ask. IS it not possible that Segoth, the Leveler, Wyrd, Nyx, and all of the other gods where once mortal beings of unimaginable power? That would explain why the head is flesh and blood. Offical sources say that when Wyrds one dream is assembled something very good will happen to the arch-mage who did it. No one knows what (exept maybe the trow), but some suggest that the mage will move into an inhanced state of being, in effect becomeing a god. And what is any god without being onipitent? To be a god, one simply must stop being mortal. Segoth was mortal, but to the people of myth, he is a god anyway.
I know this is pretty far out there. But hey, its the Asylum!
Looking forward to watching ppl tear holes in the Theory.
Drunken Ghol
