At 11:26 AM 1/31/99 +1300, Allen Gainsford wrote:

    "I don't care what they left," Rune cut him off.  "All
their research was directed towards destroying this world
merely to get back to their own.

I don't recall any mention of the Phantom Tribe trying to get back
to their own world.  It was more an act of revenge for what they
regarded as centuries of mistreatment.

Well, I speculated on the possibility in Gallus' Last Stand
(short fic, due to be rewritten and lengthened), a while back.
Given what Gallus reveals in the last episode about the Phantom Tribe
and could indicate this possibility. At the very least it opens up
the possibility, making it feasible that the PT's research on Fatora
and controlling the Eye of God was at the least initially meant to
get them back to their original home, off of El Hazard. It seems like
Gallus had a contingency plan though, if it did not work though....
	Part of it depends on how sympathetic you are to the Phantom
Tribe, and what you think of their motivations. I find them by far
the more interesting villains in the series, and think that their
ellision from the Wanderers tv series is what changed it the most
(without them, you don't need Fatora and that whole plot becomes
moot. A lot of the seriousness comes out of the series, et cetera,
et cetera). I thought them very important to the plot, if not necessarily
to the story of the OAVs, and because of what Gallus said at the end,
I found I could see their point, understand their reasonings. Made
Gallus, and by extension the Phantom Tribe since he was their leader,
more intriguing and plausible to me as antagonists.


Matthew Lewis is:
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	"Khattam-Shud," he said slowly, "is the Arch-Enemy
of all Stories, even of Language itself. He is the Prince of
Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends,
because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish
of everything we use his name. 'It's finished,' we tell one
another, 'it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End.'"

	-excerpted from Haroun and the Sea of Stories,
		by Salman Rushdie
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