An interesting thought of my own on the subject, I had once considered Loiosh to be a reincarnation of Mario. Though I have never dug through the books to search for any evidence of this one way or another. As I said it is just a thought. I may some day attempt to justify it, but for now I'll just enjoy the books. Adam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Brust" <skzb at dreamcafe.com> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 9:41 AM Subject: Re: Where's Mario? At 12:12 AM 5/23/2002 -0400, FelixEisen at aol.com wrote: >Well, there goes yet another pet theory out the window; Barritt was 'too >good' well before the Interregnum. Ergo, Barritt's Great Weapon (i.e. >Pathfinder) had to have been 'complete' before that point, which means that >Pathfinder couldn't 'just be' Mario's soul cast into an object in a similar >manner as Aliera's was. > >The mystery extends. ;) Nice try, though. :-)