: Wow brilliant theory! I'm agreeing with it already, funny
: that you forgot to mention that Myrdred isn't called
: "The Deciever" for nothing. :)
: Anyhow, I just realized. In TFL they seem to say
: "Balor" a lot when they mean "The
: Leveller" (specifically Alric saying that Balor
: has been killed many times etc.). Perhaps when big D
: says he's an old enemy of Balor, he means an old enemy
: of The Leveller (which is true since he fought him in
: the wind age).
This could very well be true. On the other hand, maybe he's just trying to keep The Nine in the dark about the fact that Balor *is* Connacht, and about the cycle in general. Alric himself didn't seem to figure it out until he'd met Balor face to face.
: btw I think I may be able to explain the
: "Moagim" thing in the TFL comic.
: Doesnt it seem likely that Shiver served Moagim? After
: all she WAS alive then, and she WAS evil, so it seems
: very likely that she would have served him. In
: addition she seems to have experience managing
: myrkridia effectively (as proven by her attack on
: Madrigal during SB's campagne).
Yes, this certainly seems likely. And it would provide a handy origin for her feud with Myrdred.
: Now lets couple this with a previous, and widley accepted
: theory about how Shiver was defeated. Shiver has
: clouded eyes before the encounter, which get lifted
: when Rabican defeats her. She also, at least untill
: then, believed herself to be beautiful though she was
: hideous (as you can tell by the Traitor's Grave loss
: screen she isnt much of a looker).
Seeing as I suggested this theory (that's right, no one ANYWHERE EVER thought of it before me), I strongly support its wide acceptance. :-)
: Thus isnt it possible that it was Moagim who put this
: illusion on her and that The Head told Rabican about
: it? Perhaps when it said "Moagim" it was
: just Rabican thinking "I must remove MOAGIM's
: spell."
Perhaps, but GURPS does seem to suggest that Shiver was intentionally sending that image of Moagim. I think probably she was just using him to say something like "Ha ha, I bet you didn't know Balor is actually Connacht! And Alric is Moagim! Your heroes are former villains, and they always become villains in the end!"
And I suspect that The Head didn't tell Rabican any more than that Shiver's weakness was vanity (perhaps because more explicit information, if overheard by the Dark, would make the Fallen Lords suspicious as to where The Head was getting this stuff). It was up to Rabican to say "Hm, she's hideously ugly, yet she's vain, and this is a weakness...maybe she doesn't *know* she's ugly...hey, what's that crap over her eyes?"
: Arent I smart?
You are indeed.
--SiliconDream
