Stevie And Mick Photographed By Herbert Worthington For The Rumours Album - 1976.

Stevie and Mick photographed by Herbert Worthington for the Rumours album - 1976.

The most tragic thing to me - aside from the obvious - about Halsin's initial entrapment in the Underdark is that he was cut off from the sun. Fully and wholly. For three years. Cut off from his beloved natural world, dulled and dark, likely with nothing very real to touch, for three years.

And this tragedy lies adjacent with Halsin's continuing connection with light. Several pieces of Halsin's (and co's) dialogue point towards how important the sun and light is to him. The entire situation with the Shadow Curse and how he clings to every mention of light and warmth - he himself refers to his being as the Oakfather's vessel of light. Halsin deeming the sight of the sun as something that should be a right to all. Then Orin, as Halsin, twists that and equates the sun as a privilege that is to be earned, but then pointedly tells the player to escape and run until they see the sun again, just as Halsin in confidence told them how he ran and didn't stop until he reached the surface into that same sun all those years ago.

To be cut off from the sun for such an extended period of time, reacquaint with it, only to be plunged back into a depth even darker? Tragic.

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Mick and Lindsey backstage, september 1976.