: Well, I ought to agree wholeheartedly with this, since it
: refutes a theory I disagree with. :-) But I don't
: think that when GURPS said "great heroes and
: villains" it meant THE great heroes and Levellers
: of each millennium. It just meant all the
: extraordinary folk like powerful Avatara, Fallen Lords
: and so forth. After all, many Myth folk seem to expect
: Mazzarin to reincarnate, and he was never a Great
: Hero or Leveller. And the Extra Lives advantage is
: available to most powerful archmages.
Mazzarin seems to be an exception only because he was the most powerful sorceror the world has ever seen. The only specific mentions of reincarnation are for the great hero and great villain. In fact, the sidebar we're talki ab mention heroes and villains as alternating aspects of one soul, which we never hear except in conjunction with the great hero/villain.
: But why were they thought to be two different Lords?
: The Light barely knows anything about the Ravanna
: identity; what would lead them to separate it from
: that of Shiver? And why would the Myth2 Shiver care
: about Myrdred calling her Ravanna? And what did the
: "strange bedfellows" thing mean in this
: context?
They didn't know anything to connect them, either, so they just assumed. As for strange bedfellows, as Ravanna, Shiver was the enemy of Connacht. It may even have been him that killed her. Now she's allied with his most loyal lieutenant. She got upaout hm calling her Ravanna, because knowing someone's ture name is a way to really get at them as per the intro to the Watcher.
