: Are you saying that every fallen lord must die after
: securing the dark's victory? I don't think that
: because Moagim died before his forces won would mean
: this was part of the cycle. I beleive that a Leveller
: is only responsible for bringing in a dark age, not
: ruling it or seeing it through a thousand years and
: that Moagim dying is a random event. I thought that if
: the cycle proceeded normally then Alric would have
: died and the dark would rule for a thousdand years. I
: also thought that Alric was just a regular Joe that
: happend to have a crap load of power and that he
: wasn't a Great Hero.
There's a Great Hero in every war; they just lose half the time. Given that Alric was the Nine's leader and "the best all-around embodiment of the Avatara ideal", it seems reasonable to suppose that he's this era's Hero. But it's never explicitly stated. It could be, I suppose, that Rabican or the Head or someone was the Hero, and Alric's just managing to hang on and delay the Dark Age through luck and skill--but GURPS gives hints that Alric may have been a reincarnation of Moagim, which would place him in the Hero/Leveller line.
And yes, it's true that (as Dan Rudolph pointed out elsewhere), we don't know that the Leveller always dies, even when the Dark wins. However, GURPS does say that a major Dark lord has never survived long enough to enjoy a period of secure rule. So it's a good bet that most Levellers don't last very far into their Dark Age.
--Silicondream
