: It would be appropriate to eliminate mazzarin from that
: list... that gives us 9.
: I have never observed Mazzarin in the context as a
: guardian or what not- and hes a bit too old to be one
: of the 9, i mean he was dead a thousand years before
: the wolf age.
Read the flavor text in TFL-
It goes SOMETHING like:
"Mazzarin was one of the most powerful Avatara of the sword age- his defeat by the fallen was a great setback to the light"
This would mean he once was a great ally of the light, so great that Bahl'Lal attacked him with a WHOLE HORDE of undead.
Another quote(NOT COMPLETE)
-As the seventh wave of thrall slipped and climbed-- and Mazzarin saw the Watcher with him at at last knew the number of his days."