On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:43:03AM -0700, Shawn Burns wrote: > > Casey wrote: > > >Shawn wrote: > >>Vlad is secretly Mario. :} > > > >Not happening. Mario couldn't pass for a sixteen to twenty something > >Easterner with whiskers. > > > > This is more speculation-space than spoiler-space: > > > > > > > > > It was somewhat facetious, but in thinking about it a little more, why not > Vlad? Not that he, right now, is Mario. But perhaps Mario's soul is > D*livar's soul. If it is true (and I don't remember where I get this is > from, making it speculation) that Kieron is Devera's father then Aliera has > already demonstrated an attraction for her soul-brother. If Mario really > died in the Disaster, then maybe he was reborn as Vlad and everyone > (Morollan, Sethra, Aliera) knows it except for him. It might explain why > Aliera likes him so much. Because we know Mario is alive in some form that isn't Vlad. I'm too lazy to dig through the archives, but it has been stated (as canonically as anything we maul after Steven says it) that Vlad comes in on Aliera just after Mario has left....and the implication is that they had been "busy"...I'd presume sex, but knowing those two it could have been something depraved...like dueling. :) I believe this all takes place in Jhereg. -Jot -- Jot Powers <books at bofh.com> http://www.bofh.com/books/ "I'm upping my standards, so up yours!" -Pat Paulsen (1927-1997), Presidential Campaign Slogan