On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Ranma al'Thor <ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu> wrote:

King Mark = Umino          <King Mark is the Comedy Relief knight of the
                            legends...He tries to be heroic and fails
                            miserably...He's more of a bastard than Umino
                            really is, though...Suggestions?>

Tristam   = Nephrite       <Tristam loved Isoud, but had to let his liege,
Isoud     = Naru            King Mark, marry her...this eventually led to
                            trouble.>

	I had to give this one a lot of thought ... but I came up with a
very simple suggestion:  Umino is Tristam; Mark is Nephrite.  Yes, I
realise that Nephrite turns good in the end ... but then, so does Mark,
allowing Tristam and Isoud to be buried together.  None of this changes
the fact that while they were alive, Nephrite and Mark were total SOBs ...
(In at least one of the versions of the saga I've read, Mark is a
pedophile ... this is the version told through Gwenhwyvere's eyes that
came out recently in three books.)

Chris Davies.