Wow that was a long message! I think that if the Leveller was choosing the strongest person on Mythworld he wouldn't have gone for Connacht. Mazzarin seems the more likely candidate for being the undisputed most powerfull sorcerer ever regardless of how many artifacts he owned or who he controlled because Connacht left his thrown and secluded or destroyed his artifacts and was still chosen. One might question whether or not Mazzarin was alive at the time but I say he was because The Watcher ambushed him with thousands of thrall and we learn that Balor was the first one to use thrall because Soulblighter's or maybe Kildaer's caption in Myth II is something like "He learned Balor's greatest secret, the reanimation of the dead, and passed it on to human generals". Also the journeyman in the prelude (in the Myth TFL booklette) to Myth may have been biased to think that Levellers and others like them were evil but I've been thinking about it since Forrest's idea on the Edge of All and I think what we see of Mythworld is all their is to it and the arrow in the lower right that points to the untamed lands is the only land route to the other side. If that's right then that previously mentioned jman was probably right about the world spinning like a coin and it belonging in turn to men or to monsters. If the Leveller comes when it's time for monsters (and it may not if the Leveller is order and the sentient races are the monsters and the jman said men but ment order and assumed that would always mean men) then he is evil.
You also mentioned something about this being a break in the cycle, I don't remember if you said this is or isn't a break in the cycle but I would like to elaborate on the issue. Moagim died and the Myrkridia ruled for thousands of years afterword. I think this shows that good and evil do take turns and that they are each 1000 years. I think that the hero of a given dark age doesn't have to come at the begining but could come at any time and I think it's the same with heroes. This would mean Moagim died the Myrkridia ruled for thousands of years then the hero of that age (Connacht) came and saved the world. This cuts out the ideas that Moagim killed a hero while he was around and Connacht killed Moagim reborn both of which are theories proposed by the questionable source of GURPS. then there was a 1000 year period of light and then Balor. Balor was defeated and Soulblighter represented "a break in the cycle" according to the jman in the epilogue but keep in mind he wasn't 2000 (and 900 was ancient for a jman) years old either and all the jmen were probably confused and arguing as we all are. I think that jman was wrong and that though the Leveller is dead evil will eventually own this age- and does, Myrkridia only have to defend Madrigal to keep it from the "walking wounded" that were to return soulblighter's army to the earth and the light's armies are in tatters. I think soon, very soon, an enterprising deciever will wage war against the light. See my message "The Deciever" posted yesterday for how he might be alive.
Im sort of groggy right now so please excuse my multiple run on sentences in this and try to make sense of my babble. :)
-Skullfinder
