"This name..."
Salvatore furrowed his brow, "Could it be the true name of the tragic playwright?
"But why... why are there two names?"
"They are both his names."
Chiron's gentle voice sounded, "When he entered the Thousand-Faced Phantom Tower to study the idol spells, he gave himself the alias 'Sophocles'.
"Before he became a Transcendent, before he had any understanding of magic, he realized that 'Wizards might tamper with his name'... Of course, Wizards can indeed do such things. His judgment was correct.
"And the name 'Dionysus' was given to him by me. I taught him 'Art almost Divine,' allowing him to possess a power nearly divine during the 'stigmatization' phase... to create his own myths and from there to receive the worship of mortals, gaining false Divine Power by making himself 'similar' to deities.
"He used this name to become the 'Wolf in the Valley.'"
"… What you're saying," Salvatore frowned, "sounds a bit like the 'Gods among men' from Winter's side."
