: The berserk has been mostly identified as Truan of the
: Hundred Battles (from "The Five
: Champions"--his flavor text suggests very
: strongly he was the one who got the head).
And/or the Eblis stone, perhaps?
: The Avatara in the tent are harder to pin down. One is
: definitely Alric. One, I theorize, is Rabican--he
: looks like a warrior with his helmet off, and Rabican
: is the only avatara known to wear extensive armor. The
: third person is without a doubt a Journeyman. He's
: wearing golden tiles and a necklace of stones and
: fangs. From this I have theorized that one of the Nine
: was not an avatara but a very old, very wise
: Journeyman.
Not inconceivable according to GURPS, but I think it's unlikely. Isn't it more probably that it's just a (as you say, very old, very wise) Journeyman who's *not* a member of the Nine? You don't have to be an Avatara to see The Head, after all...we've seen a warrior and a monk hanging out with him. Maybe it was the Journeyman who tipped them off to the possibility of The Head's existence in the first place; or maybe they thought he could help them communicate, since he was perhaps a contemporary of the Head before it was buried.
: There is also a figure standing outside the tent, holding
: what looks like a wizard's staff (it isn't a
: spear--the head is wrong). I've argued that this is
: Maeldun, based on the pregame pics from Myth II, which
: show Maeldun holding a similar staff, but this is
: shaky evidence at best.
I think that's Murgen, who's holding the staff--he's the one most famous for his sorcerererery. Maeldun, who seems to be the most battle-oriented Avatara after Alric and Rabican, is probably the guy with the sword in the picture. He might also be the Alric-looking guy in the tent. Or maybe those are simply pictures of Alric, as you say, and we don't have any pictures of Maeldun.
--SiliconDream.
