Omigod, yes, Toreth!!! One of my very favorite characters. I could easily see the dueling mindfuckery between those two, and Toreth would probably subdue Landa in the end. Toreth and Hellstrom would be an even more fascinating match-up.

I've enjoyed the Stiglitz/Hellstrom stories you and Nariel have written and quite like the idea of them being childhood friends who went in vastly different directions. And of course, I like to think that Stiglitz going postal on all those SS officers has a lot to do with his heart being broken by Hellstrom.

I remember you mentioning at one point that had Hellstrom lived, he and Landa would have set up house on Nantucket Island and lived happily ever after, until Hellstrom died of lung cancer, which is a vastly appropriate ending. ;-D