From: Jeffrey Kiok <blackbird0 at yahoo.com> Date: January 14, 2004 5:36:32 PM PST To: Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Subject: Re: Humans and the Cycle > > Given that I think Mario's a figment or dead, when SKZB has said > ex cathedra (or ex sofa or wherever) that he lives, from my point > of view it would reverse spoil the revelation to give it away now. > Should SKZB come out with a statement confirming my Sethra-killed- > Tortaalik hypothesis, I pledge to publicly, streunously disavow it. > > Uh, maybe this is a stupid question, but what is Sethra's motivation to kill Tortaalik? I mean, we all know she doesn't like, but in Five Hundred Years After, doesn't she explicitly say that she wouldn't join Adron because she wouldn't fight against the cycle, even though she would fight against the empire. Since Tortaalik was the true phoenix emperor (although decadent), wouldn't that pit Sethra against the cycle, and that's not something she would do? -Jeff