: Like I said before: different person, same spirit.
: Connacht and Balor were the same person. The Leveller
: never dies, just moved to a different body, so he is
: alwys the same person. But these reincarnated heroes
: are different people each time, but with an underlying
: spirit that gives them certain traits in common with
: their past selves.
The way things are phrased in the M2 epilogue makes me think differently.
First of all, facts. We know that the Leveler is the same spirit but a different body each age. We know that the Great Hero also has a different body each age.
We don't know for sure whether the Great Hero has an underlying spirit each time, that is just a theory. GURPS Myth suggests that Alric may be a reincarnation of Moagim, and thus he would also be Tireces, so if this were true then the theory about the underlying spirit would also be true.
Here's an extract from the M2 epilogue:
"Although the hero of every age of light is different, every dark age is ushered in by the same beast — a transient divinity that seeks only conflict — The Leveler."
Now, the narrator has been told by Nine Skull Crocodile about how the various bodies that the Leveler used were destroyed, so he knows this. Therefore when he says that "every dark age is ushered in by the same beast", he is refering to the Leveler spirit (and yes I know you know this). Yet he also says that "the hero of every age of light is different". Now it seems unlikely that here he is refering to the Great Hero's body, because he then says that thing about the Leveler, and in that context it would look like he was saying the Leveler's body is the same (follow?). So therefore it looks like he is refering to the Great Hero's spirit being different each time.
However, like the theory of the spirit being the same, this is just that: a theory.
