>Do we know [Mario] survived the Interegnum? Apocryphally. One of the fan pages has a quote from Steve that a scene in one of the books (_Yendi_, I think, but don't quote me) in which Aliera is looking particularly pleased is a scene where we have just missed meeting Mario. In other words, we know from the author that Aliera has had an off-screen tet-a-tet with him.