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Originally Posted by Rocket Man
Having one Elder that's the match of Yves or Kronos strikes me as a bit too powerful for all but the most ethereal-centered campaigns, and maybe not even there. If the Grays had someone who was that big a gun, they wouldn't need to be as cautious as they often have been.
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This is actually how I'd answer the question of who the Dead Elders are and why their Words have not been reassigned. If there ever was an ethereal analog to Yves and Kronos, you can bet that s/he would've been on Uriel's hit list.
Why not just reassign the Word? Perhaps the commonly assumed answer would be that anyone with that Word is automatically a high-priority target of both Heaven and Hell. Perhaps the spoiler-ridden answer, though, would be that the Elder of Legend would have been just as irreplaceable as either Yves or Kronos. (There is a spoilerish reason that they are so irreplaceable, as discussed in Heaven & Hell and Superiors 3...)
Alternatively, as Rocket Man suggests, it would be fascinating to run an adventure in which "Legend" emerges as a Word and a concept along with the figure who will represent it.