by Kong Wen » Wed Sep 29, 2004 3:15 am
I think the most likely explanation is that Red Hare (the one and only) became so legendary after the historical fact that storytellers and mythmakers incorporated him into more of the 3K-era stories than he originally participated in. He probably only ever belonged to Lu Bu, and lived the normal life of a war horse, but was later added to Guan Yu's legends just to aggrandize them even more. After all, if Guan Yu is supposed to be the god of war, why not give him the best war horse ever?
I think there was one Red Hare: the one that is documented in the history book. The later Red Hare was just a fictional extention of the myth, for dramatic purposes.
"We spread the time as we can, but in the end the world takes it all back."
— Roland Deschain, Wolves of the Calla