: Because, probably, that wasn't the same Mazzarin. You can
: either take this as a coincidence within the story
: (since Mazzarin was so famous, maybe people were named
: after him in later ages, just like real-world people
: are named Jesus or Peter or Cesar or what have you),
: or as a fragment of a pre-release storyline that they
: forgot to erase. There were other prerelease Shade
: names that got removed or reassigned to other
: characters, like Damas. It could be that the same
: occurred with Mazzarin, and they just forgot to delete
: the name from the Shade list. Certainly the game
: doesn't treat the Mazzarin-Shade with the importance
: you'd expect him to have if he's THE Mazzarin.
Agreed.
But do you think that maybe Mazzarin came back as another powerful Avatara? Maybe Alric....