On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Jose Marquez wrote: > >It occurs to me that Loraan could have been revivified by >family/friends/servants, but as a necromancer, he might have desired >practical knowledge that required him to become undead. Just a thought. > Hm. I don't think he personally wanted to become undead, because it appears that the undead have more vulnerabilities [1], and may be weaker in general. In fact, note that Loraan, while still alive, managed to hold his own (for a while, anyway) against Vlad and an expert swordsman & sorcerer (Morrolan), whereas after he became undead, he wasn't doing very well against a severely injured Vlad and 2 Teckla children, with some assistance from a couple of jhereg. [1] Although what was up with that Dark Water business, anyway? Why should it *matter* if plain, ordinary ground water has been exposed to light or not? Although it occurs to me that this may have been yet another thing misunderstood (or miscommunicated) by Vlad - perhaps the groundwater picked up traces of some particular mineral (necrophia?) that was affected by light, and which also had sorcerous and/ or necromantic properties.