LAST EDITED ON Nov-01-20 AT 11:18 PM (EST)
 
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>I dunno about this specific dimensional offset, but I recall in
>Symphony 1, Saionji mysteriously acquired a sword from someone
>matching that description. Combined with other mythoi, one might have
>reasonable cause to suspect one Odin Winterbeard as taking on the role
>for his own mysterious purposes, or possibly any of the other gods and
>goddesses who have been shown to be real, or at least reality-based.
>

In the annotations for Azalynn's Winter Holiday, Gryphon said that it was in fact Odin. My guess was that Saionji was so feverish that you could have stuck a white beard and a red beanie on a Hutt and Kyouichi would have thought he was seeing Santa Claus.

Peter Eng
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