: If Balor was so furious by the battle standard of the
: mykridia then why would he not be the same with the
: tain? The tain is the symbol of where the mykridia
: are, dead or alive. Balor obviously hated everything
: there is to do with mykridia and the tain is one of
: the largest symbols. This makes me believe that, as I
: said earlier, Soulblighter is not the type that likes
: following orders. He probably has some disagreements
: with Balor's plans, but does his plans without giving
: Balor any hint of his discontent. If Damas was one of
: Connachts friends and they both fought mykridia then
: it seems like slaping Connacht and Balor in the face
: when Soulblighter summoned mykridia. Why wouldn't
: Soulblighter have the same intense hatred? Again,
: Soulblighter seems like he is loyal when he has to,
: but treacherous when he can get away with it.
The Tain may be a symbol of the Krid, but it's also a very, very powerful weapon. Balor gets pissed when he sees a Krid standard; that's not the same as rejecting an incredibly useful artifact just because he killed someone he didn't like with it earlier. Remember, his dislike of Krids is taken from his Connacht. But Connacht didn't suddenly hurl away the Tain with loathing once he'd trapped the Krids inside. Why should Balor? He should enjoy the sight of the weapon he used against them.
'Sides, even if Balor *didn't* like the sight of the Tain, it doesn't constitute treachery for Soulblighter to use it. It would have been good for Balor to use it; he just couldn't bring himself to. Soulblighter was honoring his former lord in the greatest way he could, by continuing where Balor's own shortcomings caused him to fail.
--SiliconDream
