: I always figured Alric threw the head into the Devoid
: instead of destroying it because he thought the
: Leveller WOULD stay in it until it was destroyed;
: "only in this way can we be rid of him
: forever". If he had simply zapped it, the
: Leveller would have left and things would have
: continued like normal (well, except for the fact that
: Alric shouldn't have won in the first place). It seems
: like the head blew up and the Leveller escaped anyway,
: but I figure Alric was hoping it wouldn't.
It's really a moot point, because there is no evidence backing up either side. Necessarily, if you believe my version of events, you would think that the Leveller flees Balor's body when the head is cut off.
I see a lot of logical support for this...
1. If the leveller is trapped inside the head, Alric made a major and out-of-character mistake by throwing it in the devoid. Seems more likely that with all that infos he got from the big D in the desert, he would purposefully get rid of the head because it could prove dangerous in the future, he wouldn't accidently destroy it.
2. When other levellers are killed, they are sometimes imprisoned (under the mountains of Kor, etc), which begs the question of how the Leveller spirit escaped. Of course there are plenty of ways to explain that but its just going out of your way and inventing even more fiction to explain it and ignoring the simpler explanation.
-Ares™
