Dragaera

Mario

Wed Oct 13 07:06:17 PDT 2004

----- 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?