: Heh, I get it. So, The Head was a guy with an arbitrarily
: made up name that was beheaded by entities we've never
: even heard of in the game. Nice one, gurps (I've
: stopped capitalizing that because it doesnt deserve
: it). It seems much more logical that it is Moagim...
: there's a lot more evidence than that one comic. Many
: levellers have been beheaded before. Indeed we know of
: none that for sure HAVENT been beheaded...
: Moagim was beheaded, DarkSkies, Forrest and myself had an
: argument about it a while back and we found that the
: consensus was that the practice of drawing and
: quartering involved cutting off the head...
: Seeing as the four body parts were dragged to the four
: corners of the world, does it not make perfect sense
: that the head would be in the center, i.e.,
: Muirthemne? That is, if you want to get the body as
: seperated as possible.
: Still-living heads of levellers are gotten rid of in a
: myriad of ways - and that this particular head just
: HAPPENS to be buried under Connacht's capital city -
: its a logical explanation. The GURPS version most
: certainly is not.
Actually, this could go either way. Maybe the only way to incapacitate a god is to cut off its head. It would support both theories.
: Son of Wyrd beheaded by "The Dark Gods?"
: PLEASE. So, Wyrd has less power than Truan, who got
: him out? Why doesnt Wyrd do anything about his son
: being beheaded? ("Wyrd killed them, thats why
: they weren't mentioned in the game!" :P)
For that matter, why doesn't Wyrd stop the leveller? I think he really is fairly powerless, at least as long as the dream is broken.
: and WHO ARE THE DARK GODS?
They're the old gods that ghôls worship. In this case GURPS says what is implied in hte games: They were replaced by the new gods, and only the ghôls remember much about them. Probably they don't really mesh with civilization.
: I'll tell you what happened. Gurps tried to provide an
: easy answer to a problem that Bungie didnt want to
: deal with, so they deliberately made something up that
: had no references within the game. The only problem is
: it opens up more questions than answers. I refuse to
: believe that Bungie did not leave the clues to the
: identity of the Head in the Myth series and made the
: player depend on buying a book for an RPG instead -
: The clues that they left point directly to Moagim.
Dear god, you've gotten pissy lately. GURPS doesn't use this as an easy answer, it doesn't even offer it up really. All it says is that Segoth was beheaded, but his head was preserved alive and able to speak. All this does is confirm that decapitation is a favorite in Mythworld, but we already knew that. When talking about the head, it always treats it as if it were some special kind of undead. Of course, this is an easy conclusion to draw, but it isn't the only one.
