: I say Warriors because the greatest Archmage of all time
: (that we know of)is very unlikely to be caught out
: alone and totally unprotected by others.
A very good point. For some reason, however, I have always thought it was like an ambush in the middle of Trow desert, set up perfectly by the Watcher so Mazz would be caught alone and with no way out.
I can't explain why I have that vision of the battle, but can just say that it isn't refuted so it could possibly be true.
It's more of a heroic scene: going out in battle after bagging possibly thousands of thrall all by his lonesome, only to have a thunderous one-on-one war with the Watcher himself amid a veritable mountain of thrall-kibble, tossing sky shattering spells like seeds at one another until finally Mazz, a smoking ruined shell of a man, is on his back staring at the mocking stars. After the Watcher gives the coup de grace, he instills a shade into the corpse, and Mazz rises, now with an abomination inside his form. All this perhaps hours after Mazzarin collapsed the Shrine of Nyx on the dark sorceror Sinis, whose body was removed and Shadified too?
-Welly
