On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 11:03:26PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> wrote: > books at bofh.com writes: > > Sethra: Yes you do, the Necromancer, although I don't recommend you > > try to control her, she's liable to take it wrong. > Other interesting point there -- she's a god except for this one > little detail? Whooo. There's a flaw in this logic: we don't have enough information to make the logical jump you are looking for. We know that a God, by definition, cannot be controlled (except for Verra?); we know that a Demon can be controlled (including the Jhereg Demon?); we do NOT know that a Demon which gains immunity from control becomes a God. IOW, just because the Necromancer is a Demon doesn't mean she is a single step away from Godhood. Not that I am suggesting for a minute that the Necromancer is not worth of respect, mind you, especially not to her face... What disturbs me more than the Necromancer's significant power is Sethra's even more significant power. Through Vlad, we are, after all, fraternizing with someone who was *offered Godhood*. What disturbs me even more than both of those, though, is that whenever I think of the two of them together, I get the image of two "goth chicks" in black lace and tattered dresses, alternately reciting their latest poetry on the subject of death in a coffeeshot at midnight. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt My Booklog: http://matthew.infodancer.org/booklog/index.jsp My Weblog: http://matthew.infodancer.org/weblog/index.jsp