----- Original Message ----- From: "Seth Terashima" <sethterashima at gmail.com> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 7:06 PM Subject: Re: Mario > Five Hundred Years After/Issola spoilers. > > 5HYA: Many Jhereg believe that Mario is "...always searching for the > one woman he ever loved." This would be consistant with Mario's > personality, and the "searching" part implies (admitadly tenuously) > Pathfinder. > > At the end of _Issola_, Sethra refers to GWs "waking up" which may be > able to explain some of Brust's comments concerning events immediatly > prior to a scene (forget which book) in which Vlad talks to and is > almost killed by Aliera. > > 5HYA: "...Many believe that [Mario], body and soul, arrived in the > same place as Aliera's soul..." While the word "body" may weaken my > argument, Issola shows how that "place" may be Pathfinder. Compare > Vlad's metaphysical experiences. > > All right. There might be more, but I guess "all sorts of evidence" > was something of an overstatement. I won't pretend to have anything > concrete, but IMHO it's an interesting idea. > As I recall, Vlad felt that Pathfinder had a personality that wanted to get straight to "smashing things", which does not seem to be consistent with Mario's personality. Besides, how would Mario father Devra (if in fact he is/was/will be) if he is Pathfinder?