: Gurps is a book meant to promote the GURPS system of
: roleplaying, thus it will take liberties with the
: storyline to add more interest to a possible game,
: which is why every statement cannot be taken as Myth
: canon.
: This means: in the eyes of Myth, the story counts #1, but
: in the eyes of Gurps, the role-playing gameplay is
: first, with the close second being the storyline,
: which supports the gameplay. This was a book made to
: show how to play Myth in GURPS style, not the official
: Myth history book as some people have taken it to be.
: Plus, not all that the book said can be hewed to, such
: as a statement about The Deceiver is now flourishing
: because he joined the Light. Apparently he didn't see
: the Deceiver do the opposite of flourishing: being
: rent to pieces. Hah! Flourishing, you say?
Since Bungie actually *said* it was official history, and had their employees work on it, we have reason to believe that. :-)
It's true that GURPS makes some clear concessions to gameplay--for instance, the racial templates it puts out are obviously designed so that players of each race will have a value precisely proportional to their unit cost in Myth--but these are generally pretty well marked. For example, when GURPS talks about the basic character of Ghôls and Mauls and other barbaric races, it explicitly says "But you can take it a different way for your scenario, if you want."
And GURPS' differences from the game are usually minor functional things, like the speed of a given unit. There's not much reason to differ on story-related stuff, since that can easily be adapted to in a given scenario. How would it help gameplay to make the Dream of Unlife yet-to-be-discovered, instead of already known?
We know why he originally set The Deceiver down as alive; he never finished that level. :-) I consider Bungie's allowing that to pass as evidence that *they* thought Myrdred should survive in some fashion, however.
: Besides, I do not remember a statement in GURPS that
: explicitly said that the Dream of Unlife was ever
: found. Perhaps I missed it, could you tell me where
: you read that? I'd like to see this since it has been
: awhile since I last read that dusty old tome, and I'm
: too lazy to find it myself :)
It's in The Watcher's bio blurb toward the end of the book.
When you think about it (okay, when *I* think about it), it doesn't really make sense that The Watcher would have discovered the Unlife Dream. Why would a Dream produce the most pathetic kind of undead--the Thrall? Other necromancers produced much more impressive creatures. Soulblighter and Moagim with their Soulless; Shiver with her Wights; Balor with his Myrmidons; Kyrilla with her Bonemen. Surely the Unlife Dream's undead would be super-1337?
--SiliconDream
