: 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.
Actually, Alric (according to GURPS) considers Soulblighter to be the reincarnation of Damas. And, again, the "extra lives" ability is open to all powerful archmages.
: They didn't know anything to connect them, either, so
: they just assumed.
In the absence of knowledge either way, wouldn't it be simpler to assume that two female Fallen Lords that are never seen together are in fact the same? And I'd imagine that if they knew about Ravanna at all, then they'd glimpsed her or spoken with her or *something,* so they'd know that some aspect of her was the same as that of Shiver. Unless she disguised herself.
And surely it would be obvious to the other Fallen Lords...
: 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.
This would hardly be considered strange in the Mythworld, where people switch sides all the time. Shiver was already allied with Connacht himself, as Balor; the Watcher was allied with both Balor and Myrdred, both of whom were his enemies and one of whom imprisoned him for a few centuries.
: 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.
There's no reason to think Ravanna was her true name, though--nor that Damas, Myrdred or Bahl'al were their respective owners' true names. These seem to have been common knowledge (they show up in legends and in names like Children of Bahl'al for the Thrall), and Alric and the Fallen Lords used them casually in conversation with one another.
--SiliconDream
