: Also, it appears from some sources (Myth II flavors,
: GURPS) that the process of becoming a Shade is
: voluntary. It's possible for Shades to be made from
: reanimated corpses AND have it be voluntary - they
: have to take their own lives or something - but then
: there's the issue of Mazzarin and Sinis, both of whom,
: it appears, were killed against their will and later
: made into Shades.
: It seems The Watcher killed Mazzarin and made him a
: Shade, then Shade-Mazzarin killed Sinis, and Sinis was
: made a Shade. But unless they decided to join the Dark
: to save their own lives on their death beds, then this
: goes against the whole Shades-are-voluntary thing.
Actually I've been wondering about that section in the Encyclopedia for a while. There is no flavor text, no journal entries and no GURPS mention of Mazzarin becoming a shade. What the facts seem to point to (IMHO) is that Mazzarin, super-powerfull Avatara, collapsed a shrine to Nyx on the shade Sinis' head, then presuming him dead, left. Later the Watcher ambushes him and with the aid of seven waves of thrall destroyed him. GURPS then says that Mazzarin might still be alive and incapacitated somewhere (in the tradition of the Deciever, the Watcher and Shiver). There is no evidence supporting the Mazzarin-shade theory (of course I expect to be served some shortly, which I will do my best to disprove ;P)
-Discordia
