🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <D0B81...@uceng.uc.edu>, cjoh...@uceng.uc.edu (Christopher Meem Johnson) writes:
> In article <3bl8i9$2...@homer.alpha.net> jay...@earth.execpc.com (Jim Vieira) writes:
>>Alistair Brown (A.D....@bradford.ac.uk) wrote:
>>
>>: The Hermit <s010...@cc.ysu.edu> writes:
>>: >The real question is, why does the Guardian want the avatar left alive?
>>: >There must be some reason why, when he has the avatar in the palm of his
>>: >hand, he doesn't just squeeze.
>>
>>: Perhaps because that would be no fun at all?  Wouldn't the guardian really
>>: enjoy putting the avatar in a position where they think they're able to
>>: defeat the guardian... before bringing on his mother?
>>
>>I agree.  It seemed to me that the Guardian didn't want to kill the 
>>Avatar, he just wanted to dump him off somewhere while he destroyed 
>>Britannia.  I also think the Guardian knew that the Avatar would achieve
>>ultimate power on Pagan, and WANTED him to do so.  This way the Avatar
>>could return to Britannia (endgame U8) and see the destruction.  It also
>>would then allow for a more evenly matched final battle in U9.  This
>>is the type of logic I see in villians in stories and movies now and 
>>then.  The bad guy is so confident that he is willing to risk it all just
>>to gloat over his victim.  But in the end, the victim outdoes him and wins.
>>
>>--
>>						Jim Vieira
>>						jay...@earth.execpc.com
>>
> It's called meglomania (spelling?) absolutely everything has to be a grand
> scheme (Including Killing the Avatar).
> 
> --Chris
> 
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	To the middle part about the ending of ULTIMA 8.  That isn't a
destroyed Brittania.  It is the Guardian's homeworld.