Lawrence Smith asked Garon Whited:

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Garon Whited Since I tell the story through Eric, it's important for me to remember who he is. He started out as Eric, thinks of himself as "Eric," and--in a magical, names-have-power sense, IS Eric. He's had many other names--Halar being the one most commonly used--but he knows it's just another pseudonym. He can't think of himself as "The Demon King," for example, because he always knows he isn't. (Or hopes he isn't...) They're all just hats he wears, masks he puts on, not who he feels he really is. Without that fundamental sense of identity, that anchor of self, he would be pulled apart in several directions, trying to be what others think he is. (And his altar ego has enough problems with that!)
So I always think of him as "Eric," because *he* does.

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