: Isn't Alric setting himself to get knocked down? The most
: powerful man in the known Myth world. Sounds like easy
: pickingings for the next Leveler. If he really wanted
: to help he's people he'd raise a really big army, make
: towns and cities fortified etc. Then kill himself
: before the next Age.
Alric will not be the next Leveller. A reincarnation of Balor will, if the cycles continue at all - and even then, he's destined to fail. Alric is supposed to die real soon now, and will be reincarnated as the next Great Hero in a thousand years, to usher in an age of light (that is, if this one ever gets with the program and turns Dark again).
Besides, its fitting with Alric's particular, er... uh.... (idiom, sir?) yes, with Alric's particular idiom, to be the one big head guy in charge with everybody else more or less equal to eachother. SiliconDream, I believe, was the one who first pointed this out.
The "A" spirit of Tireces/Moagim, Moagim Reborn, and Alric, is the embodyment of chaos. Chaos it not a bad thing, it simply means a plain flat mish-mash with little organized structure, like outer space or a pile of rubble. Tireces lead the Age of Reason, and I can't remember Sili's reasons for postulating that that was an age with one ruler and lots of more-or-less equal folks, but he did postulate that. Then Moagim showed up as the one single bad guy, followed by a huge horde of pretty-much-the-same Myrkridia, who we all know causes quite a lot of chaos.
The next thousand years was ruled by Connacht's great Cath Bruig Empire. That had a lot of structure to it; you had the Emperor, the king of the Province, the kings of the lesser cities, their highest nobles, the lesser nobles, archdukes, dukes, and so on down to little mayors and finally the individual. Balor exhibited the same structural obsession; he was at the top, then he had the Fallen Lords beneath him, they had Shades beneath them, and underneath it all were the mindless Undead who followed the will of their masters unswervingly in perfect order.
Now we have Alric again, who is basically the king of the world, with a few nobles beneath him, and then just plain old mayors and governors for the different cities. Nobody but Alric is exceptionally more powerfull than anybody else.
