: Hey, don't blame me for any of that part of...well, you
: know. I'm just following orders on that. Unlike SOME
: people, I can distinguish a good story from an
: plausible theory. ;-)
My good stories grow from plausible theories.
: I do think Myrdred, Shiver and Bahl'al were all around
: during much of the Wind Age--GURPS *does* mention how
: old they are. Myrdred is an "ancient"
: Avatara; Shiver's career stretches back "for
: untold time." Also, Myrdred apparently has some
: kind of fairly close bond with the Trow--but since the
: Wind Age, there have only been a couple of years, at
: most, where both the Trow and The Deceiver were
: conscious and aboveground. So he most likely
: befriended them earlier, before they were ever
: imprisoned by Connacht. And according to the narrator,
: the Watcher/Deceiver rivalry is probably over a
: millennium old.
: I don't see any reason not to take GURPS' term of
: "decades" at face value. I find it hard to
: believe that The Watcher could kill Mazzarin and then
: just hang out for a few centuries until Connacht or
: Myrdred or the other Avatara finally got around to
: imprisoning him. He'd be the number one Dark threat
: until the Leveller appeared, and they'd attack him as
: soon as they could. Also, GURPS says that the Avatara
: were around for "centuries" before the
: arrival of Balor; again, this implies to me that we
: should believe that their founding was later rather
: than earlier.
: My best guess is that Bahl'al's origin lies during the
: Age of Reason, and that Shiver's a little younger.
: Myrdred probably appeared in the mid- or early Wind
: Age, and spent a while "freelancing,"
: kicking it with the Trow, and starting his rivalry
: with Bahl'al; then he was recruited by Mazzarin to
: help found the Nine. A few decades before the end of
: the Wind Age, Bahl'al ambushed Mazzarin; shortly
: afterwards he was imprisoned, either by Myrdred and
: the other Avatara, or by Connacht during that period's
: Great War.
Ok, I suppose that much I could buy. And I suggested something similar that history to Pfhor in place of the weird, timeline-tweaking crap you have now. I'll email you guys about it.
