: perhaps the real ibis crown DID have said amazing powers,
: and the little excursion into the crypts only managed
: to recover one of the copys. if alric had said
: "well we found a fake crown with no power, but we
: can still beat that mean ole soulblighter!" i
: dont think the legion would be very excited. i think
: alric knew at once that the crown was just one of the
: fakes, but he kept it to himself to keep the troops
: moral up.
You're so right. There's got to be something about Alric
that isn't all purity and light. No-one's really explored
how the hero becomes the leveller, at least, not in a
series of maps. A campaign where Alric starts out as the
main man, then starts doing strange things, and finally
becomes your enemy ... hmm yes, and you have to find the
real Ibis crown before he does to defeat him. It needn't
be hidden under Muirthemne either, as that's rather an
obvious hiding place.
BTW, (back to MythII) its a damn good job they stumbled
across Balmung while they were down there. I wonder
what fighting Soulblighter near Tharsis would have been
like if Alric had his normal sword & 3 dispersal dreams?
