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Cambruin: Is Cambruin Morloch?

Is Cambruin Morloch?

Gonna jump in here quickly -

The notion of Cambruin being Morloch is certainly a controversial one - enough to get you burned alive anywhere within sight of a Temple, at least!

The notion is intriguing - it forms a counterpoint to the idea that Cambruin was the All-Father Himself.
Note that, while lots of folk believe it, the Holy Church has yet to make the notion purely orthodox yet.
Temple folk tend to incline toward it, but Malorn has yet to come out in favor of the idea.

The biggest drawback tot he theory, it seems to me, is one already pointed out - once Morloch had Shadowbane, why continue the charade?
It's arguable that with the Sword of Destiny in his hands, the Maimed God could have taken on the rest of the Gods with it pretty handily.

Now, as for the other notion reaised here - was Cambruin the All-Father?
Somebody asked why the AF would need to appear in a Human guise.
Here's a possible answer, no doubt professed by some obscure theologian in the midst of the Dark Years:

If you really look at the flow of time, again and again you see the All-Father searching for solutions to catastrophic problems.
The invention of Time and the forging of the Gates of Heaven and Hell are the biggest examples.
Each time, He's used different means to solve the problems.
Perhaps incarnating into human form was the right way to deal with another problem.

Which begs the question: what the heck was the problem?
If one accepts this idea, it means that the All-Father may well be dead (heresy!) and that He failed to solve this problem (more heresy!).
You will note that the Turning did happen - that's certainly an earth-shaking problem...

What if it was going to happen already, and Cambruin simply failed (rather spectacularly) to stop it?