: As for The
: Head, I think it must be (or be backed by) an agency
: of power on the order of the Leveler's, or Wyrd's, or
: Nyx's.
And we're back to my old Head theory, that the Head is an anti-Leveller working to covertly force a new Great Hero to kill the Leveller. He may have actually been one of Connacht's lieutenants, who lost his body when Connacht turned to Balor (just like he said in Myth TFL). Perhaps he's even controlled by Wyrd or Nyx or some such, and only finds a new host body after the previous one has been completely destroyed. So this host body (at least its head) survived two cycles. I wonder of Tireces had a lieutenant like Connacht did, or a bodyless advisor like Alric and the Nine did.