So, to a Dragaeran, Godhood is basically a form of evolution. For an Easterner, it's entirely separate "species". To a God, who is probably the best source to quote, it's both. So what if Mario, being the living embodiment of the inevitability of death, with Easterners and Dragaerans looking up to him as something almost god-like (If Mario's after you, you're already dead, you just don't know it) What if Mario becomes a God? *That* would be cool. *Especially* if it *is* indeed a fact that Mario and Vlad share the same soul--that would be the very proof that turns him into a God, should that be his desire (Sethra can do it, but has consciously turned down the offer of Godhood). Think of it, though. If anyone could get to be a God, ie, "offered" divinity, as Sethra has repeatedly been, it would be someone who the Dragaerans and Easterners alike look upon as super-human. Also, being the beloved of the daughter of a God can't hurt. I wouldn't be surprised if he turns out to be Devera's father. The two big problems, of course, are, can there be incest between souls? and that Mario doesn't seem to be a sorceror of any skill--but I have to ask, is that important? I think we tend to equate divine power with evolved mystical and sorcerous skill, but, like a God would say, I think it's both divinity *and* evolved magic. I don't think that a being would really *need* any skill in sorcery to meet the requisites of Godhood, or if he does, that that "sorcery" be as blatant as the manipulation of amorphia or necrophia. Mario's magic is the magic of death. The inevitability. It is a *very* powerful, and very unignorable magic, but people don't really see it as magic as such. But I think that in many ways, it *is* magical. It's certainly fing mysterious enough to be. What do you guys think of Mario the God, possibly Dolivar/Mario/Vlad the God(slayer)? Jon _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca