Dragaera

SPOILERS VERRA--SPOILERS

Joshua Kronengold mneme at io.com
Thu Jul 25 15:17:10 PDT 2002

Michael Mattoni writes:
>>The quote is "Because she's better than I am." or a minor tweak of
>>same.  No "better at this" involved.
>Perhaps this is best thought of in the context of a law firm.  There are 
>partners (gods) and there are associates who might be elevated to partner 
>(like Sethra) based on ability/senority/whatever.

<laugh> I don't see how this is more true for a law firm than for any
other company...but yeah.

Being a god may very well confer certain powers (like bilocation) and
immunities (being controled)...but it doesn't make you better at
-everything- than -everyone- else.

>Sethra was probably content to pull the strings from Dzur Mountain
>and didn't want to put up with all the b.s. that comes along with
>being a god.

And possibly there are penalties (free will?) to being a god that you
don't get if you're not one.

>Power is power.  Again, we are assuming that a demon like the Necromancer 
>wouldn't necessarily be as powerful as a god like Verra.

Well, we would, except that in at least one extent, we've been told
otherwise.  Which totally floored Vlad, of course.


>While it is stated that a god can be in two places at once while a
>demon can't,

No, both can bilocate; Jenoine can't, but both gods and demons can.

>there may be things demons can do which gods cannot.

Be controled?  

In any case, I think it comes down to individuals -- most demons are
probably no better at sorcery than one of the Lords of Judgement, and
probably far worse (after all, IIRC most demons aren't -interested- in
the whole Jenoine/LoJ fight, and probably don't hold truck with the
Orb or amorphine either).

>That doesn't necessarily imply a limit to the potential of either
>demon or god compared to each other.

Nope.  

What's interesting is that while the Necromancer is fairly high-status
among the Dragerans, she's of -far- less status than, say, Verra...but
she's got so many special things about her that one might think it
would be higher.

How much -do- we know about her, anyway?


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