: Whoa man that's just fundamentally wrong. Until Alric
: killed Balor the cycle had always been 1000 years
: light 1000 years dark. An example would be when Moagim
: used the Myrkridia to kill the Cath Bruig emporer and
: secure himself an empire that lasted for 1000 years.
: Then Connacht was born in the East where he proceeded
: to loosen the bloodless grip of the things that had
: ruled the land for time immemorial (the 1k years)and
: then proceeded to rule the world until the dawn of the
: next dark age. But as I write this I notice what may
: be an inconsistency. If the hero of one age always
: comes back as the leveller of the next, what was the
: dark age between Connacht's age (wind?) and Alric's
: age (sword?)Who killed Connacht and then who defeated
: them? But even if the events did happen that way,
: wouldn't the leveller of the age directly following
: Connachts be him? but this couldn't be so as he is the
: leveller of the age after the age after his own. And
: unless there were two consecutive light ages im very
: confused. Venerable inhabitants of the Asylum, help me
: out here.
That's just the thing - it wasn't the Light's turn to win! Tireces ushered in the light Age of Reason, then returned as Moagim to usher in the dark Wind Age. Then Connacht ushered in the light Wolf Age, and returned as Balor to usher in the dark Sword Age... and got his ass kicked! So the Light is supposed to have lost!
I'm going to break a big rule right now, and reveal something of a secret: Bungie screwed up.
[gasps of horror from the audience]
Jason Jones admitted in an early interview the plot premise of Myth - that there were thousand-year cycles, half light and half dark, and that TFL took place at the end of a Dark cycle and ushered in a new Light cycle. In this original concept, Connacht ushered in the Wind Age (a Light age) a thousand years ago, and since about 500 years ago it has been growing Darker (see the subborning of the Myrmidons 300 years ago), until Caliban (aka Alric) showed up and ended the dark Sword Age, uniting the forces of Light and driving the undead from the lands.
But somewhere in there they changed their minds. They decided it would be a thousand years of Light and a thousand years of Dark, that the victory of the Light was an upsetting of the cycle, that the undead weren't the only Dark force but that the living Myrkridia could be evil too (see the change in the phrase "in turn to men, and to the undead" from the TFL manual to "in turn to men, and to monsters" in the M2 epilogue), etc. They've done a very good job of cleaning everything up and making it all look like it was a thousand years to begin with, and all the remaining messy details (the comet being late, Alric's victory, etc) can be explained by one simple fact:
The Cycle is now fux0red.
The only question remaining is, why?
