: Doch! In fact, this is the origin of the Forrestine
: Cycle, as I recall. There are strong resemblances
: between Moagim Reborn and Alric; horse-haters.
: Equally, there are strong resemblances between
: Mazzarin and Alric, such as the m1 Sinis conversation:
: "Ah, Sinis!" How does Alric know what Sinis
: looks like if he's two thousand years old? I thought
: you died when Mazzarin collapsed the Shrine of Nyx
: upon you."
: "Indeed, Alric. I'll wager you thought you'd seen
: the last of me." Alric wasn't alive before the
: end of the Wolf Age, much less during the Wind Age. It
: sounds as if it's implication that the two are the
: same.
Hm, tried to reply to this, but I must have hit close by accident. Or quit my browser. Or thrown my computer into the street. Or something. Anyway.
I think Alric = Moagim explains this particular quote almost as handily as Alric = Mazzarin. Levellers and Heroes don't just appear for the Great War, after all; decades or centuries before they're growing to adulthood/full power and gathering their forces. Moagim Reborn could very well have been alive during Mazzarin's career (described by GURPS as "decades" before Connacht's war); he simply hadn't burst forth as the Big Bad Leveller.
So Alric might have remembered Mazzarin's defeat of Sinis from his life as Moagim Reborn; he needn't actually be Mazzarin. And this would explain why, even though he's apparently consciously remembering a previous life, he still refers to Mazzarin in the third person.
--SiliconDream
