User blog comment:LordLuminous/Silver being Deliora = Impossible? Theory/@comment-24066070-20140706124430/@comment-24066070-20140706132345

1) I said he was certainly dead after Deliora's attack, that's like 20 years ago or something. It could be Deliora and Keith were both working together: Deliora doing the killing, Keith reviving whoever was useful to him. After Deliora found out Keith collected the corpse of someone related to the very person he hates so much, he requested the body to make it his host. Certainly, after going through Keith's necromancy and Hell's Core there is a chance some of the original Silver returned, but I would hate that.

2) He said those things when he wanted to confuse, bewilder and hurt Gray, but the latter saw through that because he was certain his father died, as I stated before.

3) That behaviour may have been an act that was part of a plan to emotionally crush Gray. Deliora had initially tried to make Gray believe he was the actual Silver, so if he shows kindness to Gray's friends, he might get their trust. Then when he finally meets Gray, he may have hoped to persuade Gray into believing he really is his father and call upon the witness of Gray's friends, who would admit Silver's previous kind act, potentially resulting in Gray accepting that the one before him really is his father.

Then, when Gray is overjoyed to have found his dad, Deliora would brutally reveal the truth and completely devastate Gray before finishing him off.