There has been a bit of discussion around the Verra, but I havn't seen anyone come out and address the "demon goddess" part.... When I read BDP long ago I assumed that Verra was called the Demon Goddess because of her capricious nature. But having read all the Vlad books perhaps this "title" derives from the fact that Verra was once enslaved by the Jenoine? After all, we're told that the difference betweeen a god and a demon is that a demon can be controlled (if you dare to try...). But having once been a demon (who successfully rebelled against the Jenoine) she is now a god, sitting in the halls of judgement 'n all, no longer controlled and maybe not controllable? I also, having just gone back and re-read almost everything, don't really understand the *point* of BDP. I guess Fenario's worship of Verra had become stifling, so she had to go to allow the country to move on? But that seems a little shallow. I mean, killing a god so that a tiny postage-stamp "kingdom" can change its politics? It has to be deeper; otherwise why would Bolk untervene this way? But I don't get it, and I wonder if it will tie in further with the books that take place in the Dragaeran Empire. -- Glenn Ellingson