I'm not sure if I buy into the theory that Marienna is Occtis' mom precisely because Primus spared Kattigan. If this was truly motivated by her leaving him, he would want to get rid of the man she left him for. So I don't think it was a personally motivated murder at all. My personal theory right now is that she, like Azune, might have been part of the lost lineages of the Obradimian sorcerer houses – so this is why he killed both her and her heir, but left Kattigan alone.

















