I'm not connected with TSR in any official way, and they own the copyright to Prince. I doubt they'd give you permission to reprint the epilogue. In fact, they'd likely squelch the Cyric page if they found out about it.

As for Mask, TSR and I have different thoughts on that. I wrote an article for Dragon magazine about the gods post-Prince, but it was killed before publication.

IMO, Mask was *always* the sword. That's where he hid part of himself/his power during Avatar. He could sense the Avatar heroes were on to something, so he made himself available to them--specifically Cyric. He was planning on pimping over Cyric from the start.

When the sword was broken, Mask became a servitor of Cyric. Because he was devoted to Cyric, thanks to the Cyrinishad, all of Mask's worshipers were actually feeding power to Cyric; Cyric was granting their prayers through Mask.

This isn't official of course. I think that TSR did something else with Mask's fate in the Ruins of Zhentil Keep boxed set and the Faiths and Avatars book. I haven't read either, so I couldn't give you more specifics.

FYI: Richard Awlinson stands for Scott Ciencin, Troy Denning, and myself. I was editor/developer for the original trilogy; I did a lot of the work developing Cyric and the Realm of the Dead. He was, even then, a favorite character of mine.

Troy Denning is supposedly writing a sequel to Prince of Lies, likely for 1997 release. I don't know anything else about it; they didn't ask me to write the sequel.

In case you're interested, I'm working mostly with White Wolf these days. I have short stories in three of their anthologies--Truth Until Paradox, City of Darkness-Unseen, and The Splendour Falls. I'm writing a creator-owned novel in White Wolf's Borealis line--an Arthurian book titled To Dream of Kings--due out summer or fall 1997.

Again, cool page. Cyric is also a big fan of Oingo Boingo. Many of the chapters in Prince are tips of the hat to songs on "Dead Man's Party". It seemed really appropriate, somehow.

Cheers,
Jim Lowder