> Now, what was going on in the Longvale story was definitely a real
> Dorastor plot, and a terrible threat to the Bilini lands, and
> Oddi's campaign ending with the death of the broo leader was a
> mighty victory, but the guy wasn't Ralzakark.
K. Paul McDonald misses the point
>Nooo!! ;) What does it take to kill that guy? I thought it was a good
death. He kept coming back until Oddi used the wyrd
>of the sword to kill him at the expense of his own life
- In Paulis' story, Oddi does not either use the sword's wyrd
to kill the broo king -- Oddi is quite alive and well at the end of the
tale. He just kills the broo king who does somehow come back to life
once.
- The bad guy in the Paulis story _is_not_Ralzakark_. Ralzakark
was not behind the plot! Ralzakark had nothing to do with it. There is
no evidence that Ralzakark would even be as dangerous or as powerful as
the monster broo king that Oddi killed. It's inappropriate to moan and
groan about how hard Ralzakark is to kill, because we gain no actual
knowledge of the big R. from this tale at all.
Ralzakark is blamed for everything in Dorastor. This is not the
same as him being _responsible_ for everything. Think of all the many
weird chaos manifestations in Dorastor that are blamed on Ralzakark --
his supposed children, alter egos, etc., Do most of these things have
anything to do with him? What if Ralzakark, instead of being some
colossal semi-mythic manifestation, is just a strong and smart broo? And
something _else_ is going on?
There are a number of chaos monsters in Dorastor that are more
powerful and dangerous than Ralzakark, though only a few that rule
well-organized societies.