Steve Simmons wrote: > > Equally depressing is the fact that Cawti and group, while certianly on > the moral high ground, are doomed to failure -- probably bloody failure. > As Brust-speaking-through-Sethra says, this is basicly a `you can't get > there from here' problem. You (Dragaeraian society) has to get somewhere > else first, and that place is generations away. Could you really get there even in several generations? Wasn't their a Vlad-type observation in one of the books where he talks about Aliera and Morrolan killing huge numbers of ordinary Easterners in a battle who didn't have a chance against them? Guess I'm wondering if you need a precondition where masses of ordinary Teckla who would have a chance against the noble Houses in a fight before the society could get to the place where Kelly et al have a chance, or if the existence of magic changes things too much. Shrug - maybe Cawti should be investing the proceeds of her territory in magic colleges for Teckla and Easterners?