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Pathways Into Darkness has given Story hounds many clues into Marathon's storyline. Let's see if it will do the same for Myth.
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Pathways into Darkness - Myth
The venerable Hamish Sinclair has established several links between Bungie's first major game,
Pathways Into Darkness, and Marathon. Might there be a connection
between Myth and Pathways? Until I received Christopher Powell's email I would have said no.
By pure chance I stumbled across a PBS special on the city of
Copan and something twigged. A quick jaunt to the library later,
I confirmed my suspicion - some members of the ancient Mayan nobility
had names like "Lady Six Sky" and "18 Jog Jaguar", names that
strongly resemble the Journeyman names in Myth (i.e. start with
numbers, feature an animal's name, etc.). I had thought that Myth
represented a complete break from the Pathways/Marathon Universe,
but evidently there's some kind of link between the Empire of
the Cath Bruig and Classic Mayan civilization of the Yucutan Peninsula
and, of course, the Yucutan was where that pyramid in Pathways
and its slumbering Cthulhuian god was located ...
Uh oh.
SteelClasher writes to us with a fascinating theory suggesting Myth and Pathways
are directly linked.
Say that Balor's head was thrown into the great devoid. Then a
new civilization comes along and sees this evil spewing hole.
Perhaps they built a temple on it to contain the evil which was
balor's head slowly morphing into what they thought was the "dreaming
god"? and the bottle that The german soldiers were looking for
that held some great power... could it have been the tain? Trapped
far underground? And the area around the temple in PID was noted
to be jungle. Very similar to the swampy area and thick vegetation
around the devoid. Which itself had NO vegetation near it like
the temple.
This one's definitely "out there", but food for thought.
SteelClasher writes again, this time about the similarities between PiD zombies
and Myth Myrmidons, among other things...
The zombies in PID are very similar to myrmidons. They both attack
at about the same speed and both turn to dust when they die and
especially, BOTH ARE SKELETONS! The vial in the game released
some sort of unstoppable creature,(Myrkridia maybe?) Plus, ghols
are similar to skitters, short, fast, and easy to kill, The phantasms
resemble soulless.
My great shame is that I've never played PiD, so I can't comment.
Maybe you can.
Hamish Sinclair tips us off to a discussion about Pathways and Myth that appeared
on his site several months ago, before Myth had been released.
You can read the whole discussion in the entry for September 15,
1997 here.
Among the interesting facts revealed in the discussion:
Around September 1997, Bungie's website started advertising Pathways with this catch line:
Pathways Into Darkness
The original Bungie 3-D adventure game.
Solve the riddles of a thousand years and save humanity. [first noticed by Jim Mitchell's Pathways Into Darkness Story Page]
No mention of "riddles of a thousand years" is made in the actual
game, Bungie simply tagged it on right before Myth was released.
As Hamish remarks:
Whether this is a deliberate attempt to tie all 3 games with a
millennia theme who can tell?
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Found anything we've missed? Got a theory that fits? Have a correction to make?
Please post it in The Asylum so others can add their ideas and thoughts.
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