I have two theories on Thoth:
1) The guy has amazing foresight and intutition when it comes to future sequences of events. He would have seen this trih xeem thing coming from a million years away and done everything in his power to maintain the order (balance!) of the universe.
2) He hates change and does everything he can to negate it. Why, then, is he helping to free the S'pht? Because last thing he knew, they were free. When he wakes up, they're not, so he pushes backwards. A restoring force, if you would.
There's evidence for both sides. I'd like to think that the S'pht / the Jjaro came up with something as nifty as #1, but I have a definite bias against Thoth and the levels we participate in while under his control, so I personally believe in #2.
Anyway, one way or another, I don't believe that Thoth is out to make the universe as a whole balanced and homogenous. Even the Jjaro would have seen the fallacies in that, and that's saying something. ;)
: The first though that occurred to me that I never really gave much notice to
: before is "why would Thoth try to aid the Pfhor"? The easy
: answer I'd always taken before was "Thoth is obsessed with
: balance." But how exactly does aiding a slave empire to reconquer the
: slave race which he was created to serve help to balance anything? If
: anything, the return of the S'pht'Kr shifts the balance back and sets up a
: strong check against the Pfhor.
