: Forrest or Sili, please post SOMETHING about my post! I
: put a lot of hard work into it. C'mon, guys, I wrote
: this based upon the kind of foreignsic stuff you two
: do! :-) Keep in mind, it's not trying to prove who the
: head truly is, but who the head was originally
: intended to be by Bungie, seeing as Balor even looks
: like The Head.
Well, if you insist...
First of all, I'm disinclined to support any theory involving time travel. To me, the existence of the Codex argues *against* time travel; the future and the past are already written down, so it's probably not possible to travel through time and alter them. Also, black holes are only associated with time travel in the sense that they're associated with spacetime weirdness in general; by far the most likely thing that happens to an object entering a black hole is that its personal time slows down to 0, and it effectively gets "stuck" at the event horizon and sits there, in suspended animation, forever. So I don't think you can say that because the Devoid "looks like a black hole" in some sense, it's a temporal gateway. Furthermore, stuff must fall into the Devoid all the time--rocks, dead birds, and so forth--yet there's no record of assorted debris constantly appearing out of thin air in the past.
I know these points don't constitute *proof* that Myth time travel doesn't exist. But time travel is such a big, important, unusual phenomenon--especially for the fantasy Myth setting--that in the absence of proof that it *does* exist, I think we should shy away from theories which involve it. This is the same reason I oppose Forrest's theory of Shiver and Ravanna; it requires a fundamental addition to the world of Myth (one spirit with two simultaneous incarnations) and I don't think we're warranted in making that addition. Just because Myth contains some elements we don't encounter in daily life--like magic--doesn't mean we can assume that every unusual phenomenon we can think of is also present. Otherwise, all the Myth characters are just puppets of a collective mind led by Rurik, acting out these great wars to amuse itself. :-)
Also, we have a very clear picture of Balor/Connacht from Tales of the Fallen Lords, and he doesn't look anything like the Head. He looks like he's from Northern Europe; fair, with a square face and close-set eyes. The Head, on the other hand, is dark, lean, raw-boned; basically, he looks like a Jman. Which is entirely understandable, since the Journeymen/Heron Guards are Bruigs, and the Head was found at the heart of the Bruig empire. (So he needn't actually *be* a Heron; he just shares their ethnicity.)
Anyway, that's what I think. I was kinda holding off on it so as not to disappoint. I mean, we all know how when I say I don't like a theory, its creator always blinds himself and smears himself with ashes and wanders off as a beggar... ;-)
--SiliconDream
