: Here's my take on it: the Head is a good guy. He is
: against the Leveller in general, because he
: decapitated him. Thus, he advises good guys against
: The Leveller. He advised Connacht, like he said: he
: also lost his to to Balor, in as much as Balor is the
: Leveller. Now he's helping Alric & co in TFL. Any
: damage done to the light could be accidental, or
: simply because the Head is a god (Segoth) and doesn't
: think mortal lives are really anything to worry about
: when there's a Leveller to be killed.
HEY! That was my idea (and I don't have very many, so I tend to be a little overprotective when I do have them!)! I have already posted it under a different topic, but as it's relevant here too, I'll be annoying again and repeat myself loudly:
One thing no one has yet pointed out (to my notice - I am no veteran, and I am frequently away for long periods...) is that it is not completely certain that the Head is at all evil, or that it ever did betray the Nine: All we know is that Alric was against it. Alric would have had reason to have been angry at the Head; after all, it aws the Head which sent him off into the Desert on his unfortunate mission... I probably wasn't omniscient, it just knew more than most about most. Therefore it could not know that Balor would get to the Armour before Alric. Alric was a bit funny anyway after his 'Desert Incident', and I postulise that he attacked the Head out of spite and perhaps a touch of ambition, as the Head was after all 'above him' in the Heirarchy of things. Those who supported the Head were doing so out of loyalty, not brainwashing.
Alric is no 'supreme Good', he sacrificed almost his entire army at one time and sent the rest to their doom in the Explosion at the Devoid.
I still don't know where the Head sodded off to afterwards, though... probably went off to sulk with hurt feelings... (or maybe he lost the civil war and was... what are you supposed to do to a lone head when you capture it? Cut its head off? I suppose it would be fun playing Bowling with it for a while, or Polo (polo was originally played with bits of captives by Those Nice Folks in India). Or you could sit it on its cushion and poke your finger in its eye until you got bored. Or stick hot things up its nose...Or Darts... (at this point, Da Pacifist realises exactly the multitude of Fun Things to do with a living severed Head, and stops writing them down because he wants to grow old somewhere else... as a football player;)....)
Maybe I would paint Alric The Hero as being more blinded by a sense of frustration at haveing not gotten his armour (and hence being condemned for the rest of TFL to run about in his pyjamas) than simple jealousy or whatnot... but that'just me, it's open for consideration.
Da Pacifist
