: May I present more fodder for the Mazzarin/Alric theory?
: I don't know if anyone's pointed this out before, but
: look at the dialogue in "Out of the Barrier"
: Alric: Ah, Sinis. I thought you died when Mazzarin
: collapsed the Shrine of Nyx upon you.
: Sinis: Indeed Alric. Then I'll wager that you thought
: you'd seen the last of me.
: Alric: I HAVE seen the last of you...
: *boom* *bang* *pow* etc.
Well I always thought that he wasn't refering to THE mazzarin but the SHADE mazzarin… And This may be a little out there but this can explain that conversation quite easily... Sinis was one of the Nine, he whent to the shrine of Nyxt and Mazzarin (NOT THE GREAT WIZARD (Or that wizard as a shade if you want to think of it that way) the SHADE dropped the shrine on him. Since in TFL the dark just raised the dead avatars, then thats how he became a shade. and then alric is like "Woa! Sinis! I thought you were dead when that *Shade* Mazzarin dropped the shrine on you! then sinis is like "Oh yeah but im evil now so die" and then they fight :) if you think about this this is not only an argument that sinis was one of the nine but could be evidence that mazzarin was resurected as a shade (although i do not personally beleive this)
: Look at what Sinis says. "YOU thought YOU'd seen the
: last of me." Mazzarin died in the Wind Age, so
: Sinis must have been buried under the Shrine sometime
: in that age or before it. Then why does Sinis say
: "you" to Alric, who was born over a thousand
: years later? Sinis says "seen the last of
: me," not "heard the last of me,"
: implying that Alric was somehow there. Could it be
: that he knows they're the same spirit?
: Of course, another explanation could just be that
: "you" just means 'the Light' in this case.
: This seems pretty flimsy though, especially since
: (unless I'm misremembering), he calls Alric by name.
: Another possible way to explain all this is to argue that
: Sinis was a good guy when he was buried... by
: Mazzarin, who was at this point a Shade. Sinis is then
: resurrected by the Dark as a Shade. If Mazzarin was a
: shade when he buried Sinis, the time limit disappears
: and this could have been a recent occurence. On the
: other hand, though, Alric's speech "Ah, Sinis! I
: thought you died..." seems full of swagger, not
: sorrow. You'd think that if Sinis being undead were a
: new thing, Alric would be expressing shock or sadness,
: not boastful self-confidence.
