: A flavor text speaks of Turquine agreeing to become a
: Shade, and GURPS characterizes shadification as an
: "exchange" made by the subject. And every
: reference to a Shade's previous life--both in GURPS
: speaking generally and in the game as Turquine--paints
: them as evil bastards who very much desired to become
: Shades. I think it's most likely that the archmage has
: to agree to his conversion. In any event I suspect
: Mazzarin would have suicided immediately if he thought
: he was in danger of being taken alive by the Watcher.
Hi Sili :)
Sorry, I can't give up yet. Although its an "exchange",
and Turquine desired shadedom, that doesn't prove all of
them wanted to be shades, does it? I agree there's no
way Mazzarin would have wanted to be shadified, as (a)
he's not a baddy, and (b) he becomes less powerful. So
he'd have to have been forced, and I see no reason why
a defeated avatar couldn't have been shadified by force
by an evil sorceror with the dream of Unlife.
BTW, Shiver was dead, but brought back as a kind-of shade,
so Mazzarin needn't have lived. The Encyclopaedia entry
for shades says they are "the resurrected corpses of
dead avatara bound to the Fallen Lords and used as conduits
for their magic".
The same Encyclopaedia entry refers to Mazzarin as a shade,
and his corresponding entry says he's a shade. Lastly,
the Journal entry for The Watcher level says "The last Shade
you fight in this level is Mazzarin. He must be repaying an
old debt to the good guys, because he is the easiest Shade
to defeat; he arrives already damaged and he has no
Dispersal Dreams."
So if Mazzarin isn't a shade, there's a lot of corrections
need to be made ;)
Cheers,
-IronDuke
