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Originally posted by SixOfSpades:
(...) and the spider-woman in the Cloakwood says "I am cursssed. The archmage, Jon Icarus, made me this was for indignities done to him and his wife by me." Sure, the spelling's wrong, but the derivation is clearly there. (...)
Actually, that was an intentional bit of foreshadowing to SoA. Jon Icarus was the name they initially intended for Jon Irenicus. They changed it later to remove the similarity with the Icarus from Greek myth.