: Aye, indeed.
: As for unit type, I have to agree that the narrator is a
: bowman. NOT a fir'Bolg, but a legion bowman. Although
: I just KNOW that there are holes in this, what
: convinces me of this is that the narrator speaks with
: an English accent, and th eonly units ingame that
: speak with such an accent are bowmen.
Can I assume you mean "not fir'Bolg-trained?" There aren't any actual fir'Bolg in Myth2. Yeah, I agree that he's ordinary Legion, not one of the specially-trained guys.
A couple of additional smidgens of evidence:
In "A Murder of Crows," the narrator's group of prisoners encounter Phelot pre-game and the narrator recognizes him (again demonstrating his erudition; I doubt too many soldiers would recognize on sight a moderately-famous enemy from a war sixty years ago), and he and his fellow prisoners resolve to escape and free the Deceiver. Then, in-game, Phelot drops by the enclosure where a group of archers are being held and sets them free; one of the archers says "That was Phelot, right?" And then they go off to rescue their comrades and Myrdred. It doesn't take much imagination to identify the narrator's prison group with that group of archers.
Forrest mentioned earlier that the narrator's being given the TFL journal by Garrick suggested to him that the narrator was of higher rank than just a grunt; it now seems to me additional evidence that he was a bowman rather than a warrior. Any Myth player knows that the bowmen are placed in much less risk, proportionately, and GURPS confirms that this is Legion policy. So it would make sense to give the journal to the unit most likely to survive the upcoming battles.
--SiliconDream
