by Poenaensis » Thu Jan 19, 2006 2:57 pm
From everything seen so far on post E6 discussion, everything seems to link to this guy.
If I was Kalmar and wanted more power I would ensure that all shadow/ more powerful swords were in my posession. So: what if Gaius' mission was kalmar's 'justice' which involved taking or destroying all of these swords. If I could make Gaius believe in what he was doing then he would gain all of those benefits like his superduper sheild. Even if Kalmar knew what he was doing wasn't without selfishness, gaius wouldn't, brainwashing is powerful.
So, Gaius is wandering along the way and knows of a guy named Jeruh who has a shadow sword. Somehow he runs into the mimic who's last victim was midian (this could work the other way round gaius hears about jeruh from the mimic). Perhaps, with his powers of perception gaius knows that this midian is carrying a super sword, but he does have a rather conveniant knack of attacking every shadow sword he sees. Perhaps Gaius was letting the mimic keep his sword for the time being because, with his guidence, gaius could acheive his objective faster.
So midian has found someone to help him kill jeruh, great. So off they go, when Jerus is dead, gaius seems keen to bury the body and yoink the sword. Rhue's sword absorbs all the auras from jeruh's sword as well as the fictional rhue. The stress of either absobing so many auras or from absorbing the messed up Rhue fossilize him as the Rhue character.
At the end, in the traz suicide ending, Gaius says that things will continue the same for him, he will continue on his path because he is not so unlike slade, blindly following someone else's justice.
This is just a theory, don't bite my head off for obvious mistakes.
"Mum, Grandad says he cant get his bottom set of false teeth out."
"Don, are you all right?"
"I can't get my teeth out"
"that's cause they're real"
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Grandad's mind gave up on boxing day, to late to get him new one for Christmas, he'll have to wait till his birthday now.