latro and ares

maa32 · 08 May 2003, 15:43 · from urth-v0305.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) latro and ares
Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 08:43:59 -0700
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I had the looming thought in the back of my mind that Latro was a god,=20
probably Ares, and then the clincher was when Thamyris starts addressing La=
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as Pleistorus in Chapter 24 of Soldier of Arete.  Unless Ares is the guy wi=
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the lance that rides by Thamyris' castle while Latro is sneaking up there o=
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he appears in the next 70 or so pages, I don't think (H)e makes an appearan=
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in the books.  I am especially interested in the almost random manner in wh=
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Wolfe associates Ares with Ahura Mazda, the singular God that embodies good=
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opposed to the plurality of lesser deities that proliferate on Olympos.  Do=
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that make Ares an incarnation of the "true" God instead of just an angelic=20
being - thereby possibly making Latro much more than a man, but something l=
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a trial run for Christ?

Also, I believe that Oior cannot look directly at Latro at one point in=20
Soldier of the Mist because of the weird glow that suffuses Latro's body.  =
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question is, how does latro's identity as Lucius tie in with the possibilit=
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of being Ares?

And yes, Aphrodite does seem particularly anxious to couple with Ares - who=
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"seed" must be preserved, according to Elata.

Marc Aramini

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