: Hey Silicon,
: Could you please summarize in a response to this how YOU
: think the cycle works? Feel free to include relevant
: quotes, although I will only accept ones from the Myth
: games or documentation as valid ;) (Seeing as the
: writer of gurps didnt even bother to play the game or
: anything)
No problem.
The minor cycle:
1000 years of Light rule, 1000 years of Dark rule. Just before the start of the Light Age, a Great Hero and a Leveller are born and do battle. The Hero survives, the Leveller does not, the Dark is beaten back and the Light rules the land. Over the next 1000 years the Hero is tainted and, at the Light Age's end, becomes the Leveller and battles the Great Hero who is born at that time. The Hero perishes, along with any overambitious Dark lords who seek global destruction--the Leveller included--and the remaining Dark Forces triumph and spend the next 1000 years making life hell for the humans and other Light races: enslaving them, torturing them, but in general not trying to exterminate them. Finally a new Leveller and Hero are born, and the cycle starts again.
The major cycle:
4000 years long, during which two eternally reincarnated entities--A and Z, say--switch roles and who gets to win each round. One Light Age, ushered in by A, followed by one Dark Age, ushered in by A, followed by one Light Age, ushered in by B, followed by one Dark Age, ushered in by B. The specifics:
A is born as a Hero; B is born as a Leveller. A kills B and establishes a Light Age, then is corrupted and becomes a Leveller. B is reborn as a Hero. A and B both die, and the surviving Dark forces establish a Dark Age. A is reborn as a Leveller, B is reborn as a Hero. B kills A and establishes a Light Age, then is corrupted and becomes a Leveller. A is reborn as a Hero. A and B both die, and the surviving Dark forces establish a Dark Age.
So, in the most recent round:
A is born as Tireces, B as whoever the Leveller was then. A-Tireces kills B-Leveller, and establishes the Age of Reason. A-Tireces is then corrupted and becomes Moagim. B is reborn as an unnamed Great Hero. A-Moagim and B-Hero both die, and the Krids and the Watcher and assorted other baddies dominate a Dark Age. A is reborn as Moagim Reborn; B is reborn as Connacht. B-Connacht kills A-Moagim Reborn and establishes the Wolf Age or Age of Light. B-Connacht is corrupted and becomes Balor. A is reborn as Alric. And here the cycle breaks--B-Balor dies, as he should, but A-Alric survives and the Sword Age becomes one of Light.
I figured I wouldn't put in any quotes, unless you specifically asked me to justify a certain point. Be warned, though, I'll have to quote GURPS. So you might not want to bother. :-)
--SiliconDream, who just shaved his head
