: I'm working on a new scenario for Myth II and I've (after
: reading some suggestions from people) decided to put
: it during Myth TFL but from the point of view of the
: Dark. I had to change some thins to make it possible
: (eg. Crow's Bridge is destroyed) so the player can
: actually win at the levels they play.
: I have a few questions: 1) If the Watcher got the Total
: Codex, what could he do with it?
What one would do with the Codex is still an open question. It tells future history, which sounds useful--except it also details YOUR history, which means that whatever you read will come true. Therefore, if the Watcher read he was doomed to die after a miserable struggle with the Deceiver, all he would be able to do would be to howl about how unfair it was. There is no way to change what happens, so it's pretty much useless unless you're the Light and you want to reassure your troops that yes, they will be successful (why Alric didn't do this is a good question--maybe he was worried about demoralizing them if they found out what was waiting for them at Rhi'anon). It would be much more useful as a political tool: whoever has it will become the foremost target of the Light (for unknown reasons, the Nine and later King Alric were obsessed with holding on to it).
: 2) If the Deceiver got the Watcher's arm, what could he
: do with it?
Exactly what the Nine did: use it to kill him. The Fallen were all protected by massive sorceries that made them all but invulnerable. However, by the logic of magic a thing that is invulnerable can always be hurt by itself. Therefore, having a piece of a Fallen Lord (his arm, her true name, whatever) makes them vulnerable. The Deceiver could probably have done better than make arrows out of bone chips, but the end result would be the same. It's the ultimate weapon as far as the Watcher is concerned. The Deceiver, being the wily fellow he was, might have used it strategically rather than tactically; i.e., he could have blackmailed/threatened the Watcher into furthering his (the Deceiver's) own agenda, but he was blinded by his desire for revenge (his big weak spot) and therefore would almost have certainly used it to complete some kind of ironic and highly unlikely revenge fantasy. Short answer: the Deceiver would have killed the Watcher with it.
: 3) How would the two events above influence the fight
: between the Watcher and the Deceiver at Seven Gates?
It would never have happened. The battle between the two of them at Tyr and the later snafu at Seven Gates would have been very short, and either of them would have ended with the Watcher being dead. By all accounts the Watcher was not the craftiest fellow in the Mythworld and he would not even have seen it coming. The fact that he managed to hold his own was due purely to the fact that he was the better sorceror (by probably an order of magnitude), and therefore didn't have to worry about the Deceiver's tricks. The fact that Balor was heavily invested in the Watcher (he did, after all, specifically and at great peril to himself search for, rescue, and support the Watcher, while the big D was just bent to his (Balor's) will) probably helped as well. Short answer: the Codex wouldn't have made a difference, but the arm would have ended the conflict almost instantly, with the Watcher being dead before the dust settled.
: 4) After Balor was killed, the Fallen Lords were sort of
: weakened/immobilized or whatever. Would this happen to
: their armies (what I'm asking if Balor died would my
: Shade narrator in the Watcher's army still be able to
: narrate?)
There's a whole can of worms there. We know that Soulblighter, at least, was still active even after Balor's head came off, though there's some evidence he lost most of his army as a result. What the consequences of Balor's death were for the Fallen is a matter still open to heated debate. As for the Shades, they seem largely untouched by this circumstance. Herod and Phelot were both on the losing side in TFL, but they remained healthy and at full power for the sixty years between games.
: 5) Is there any way (perhaps using the Codex or
: something) that the Watcher could evade being
: weakened/immobilized by Balor's death? Could he still
: fight after it?
Again, it's an open question what Balor's Death did (or might have done, since he was dead anyway) to the Watcher. Most likely he would have been alive but without Balor's leadership he wouldn't have known what to do next. Most likely he would have turned his efforts towards destroying the Deceiver and would have left the Light pretty much alone, but it's hard to say. He was far more loyal to Balor's vision than the rest of the Fallen (not that I have much evidence for this, but there's little evidence to the contrary, either): Soulblighter had his own vision to fulfill, Shiver was too aggressive to take orders well, the Deceiver was his own creature and resented even the simplest order, etc. The Watcher may well have gone on trying to Level the Mythworld, even without Balor. He would have still had plenty of undead troops and if the Deceiver were out of the picture (dead, or frozen in the Dramus, or whatever) he might have gone down fighting, anyway.
: Thanks,
You're welcome. :)
: The Sandman
Wellington
