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Old 12-01-2007, 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Lady Dragonfly View Post
I disagree that Alvin was unkillable. In the epilogue, Triss told Geralt that he should be very careful because if he is killed in the Ice Age "future", that is for real. That means, by analogy, the GrMr was gambling with his own existence. If Geralt was killed in the future, he was dead in the present. That is what exactly happened to the GrMr himself: he was killed in the future, and his dead body was found in the cloister.
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The epilogue was not actually the future though, but some sort of illusionary scenario.
And if Alvin died somewhere along the line, there'd be no Grandmaster as he is the product of Alvin, and thus there'd be nobody there to steal the mutagens, and thus there'd be no one to kill Alvin, and thus the Grandmaster would exists anyway and the mutagens would be stolen and .....
The Grandfather paradox
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