: Not necessarily. They've rarely seen any of the Fallen
: Lords together, I believe. And the Lurker is also
: female.
: Chances are, they did see the Voiceless One, but she
: appeared as a shadow. A lot of what it says about her
: points to her being a Mahir. Maybe Balor reincarnated
: her weird so her ghost was still running free
: seperating from her at night, much like that shade.
Yeah, Ravanna's similar to a Mahir in a lot of ways. Hard to see how Balor's "reviving her from eternal sleep" would fit with what we know of Mahir creation, though: they're the spirits of people who've died while in the grip of strong emotion or obsession. And if Ravanna and Shiver were the same, then the Light wouldn't have known that "the remaining Fallen Lords were hunted down and killed." They might assume Soulblighter was killed in the explosion at the Great Devoid, but Ravanna would simply have disappeared after Shiver's defeat at Madrigal. That would have been noteworthy.
The Shade text was only in the beta, wasn't it? Not that you're presenting it as solid proof.
Here's my little tale of Shiver and Ravanna, as a service to a theory I still don't believe. ;-)
Some time far in the past, a then-beautiful Shiver was sent into a comatose half-death like Myrdred's; over the years, her body aged and withered as she slept. Balor revived her and cast a glamour spell so that she'd appear beautiful to herself and (intermittently) to others, and could therefore preserve enough mental equilibrium to use her magical skills to the max. However, either the sleep spell couldn't be cancelled permanently, or the glamour spell couldn't be maintained permanently; either way, Shiver was forced to sleep periodically. To make her of some use during these periods, Balor allowed her dreamself to go forth as a Mahir and work for him, although its thought processes were curious and difficult even for him to understand.
--SiliconDream
