The Griffin

[Ramesses]

Ahhhhh crap... as always, I'm late again to the discussion party. I ran into Moose online on the server last night and promised I would chime in... but dang, you guys are incredible at deciphering this Griffin identity issue. Eight solid pages already... bloody well done.

My two cents:

The obvious:
I initially went with the notion that it could very well be Gaius until halfway through the cutscene I realized that the body style didn't match (we all know our Griffin chap is a Highlander while Gaius is a Hume).

The keener point of inspection:
It wasn't until I rewatched the cutscenes (so that I could scrutinize the dialogues for clues) that I realized that our Griffin was most likely Ilberd. But while chatting with Moose last night (before our respective Duty Finders popped) a keener point of possibility arose while we discussed... what if Ilberd was indeed the Griffin BUT was working for Gaius? Its fortuitous that Moose had already loosely suggested this on page 5 and I was glad to find that I was not the only one thinking along those lines.

Think about it... as much as Ilberd hated the empire, the Scions and Raubhan, he needed a LOT of funds, resources and arcane-like connections to get his "program" for revenge going. This was a guy on the run. How he linked up with Elidibus, secured followers and established a base of operations within a very swift amount of time points to the fact that he likely had a mentor that "showed him the ropes". And Gaius always had a prime talent for making skilled revenge-seekers gravitate to his side so that he could mold them into his fashion.

Or am I just wanting Gaius back so much... (I still stubbornly refuse to accept he's dead)... that I'm just grasping at obscene notions?

<Shrugs>