Dragaera

POTD, questions...

Ruhlen, Rachel Louise (UMC-Student) RuhlenR at missouri.edu
Thu Dec 5 10:54:30 PST 2002


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Brust [mailto:skzb at dreamcafe.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 11:03 AM
> To: Davis, Iain E.; Jot Powers; dragaera at dragaera.info
> Subject: RE: POTD, questions...
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> At 10:36 AM 12/5/2002 -0600, Davis, Iain E. wrote:
> > > From: Jot Powers [mailto:books at bofh.com]
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> > > Is the similarity between the names of Orlan and Loraan 
> > > coincidental? It seems that they are really close, and both were 
> > > involved in the staff with Aliera's soul.  However, Orlaan (aka 
> > > Grita) is supposedly a half breed (Tsalmoth &
> > > Lyron?) whereas Loraan was an Athyra.
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> >Confusing, isn't it.  Somehow, I don't believe that it is a 
> >coincidence.
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> I do.  Damn.  Wish I'd caught that similarity in names so I 
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> changed Orlaan's.  Oh, well.  Too late now.

I don't. No way was it coincidence. Even if it was, I'm sure you can
work it out so it wasn't. I'm having too much fun figuring out how
Orlaan either managed to have an Athyra son who managed to hide his
cross-breed origins from his house, or how Orlaan got herself turned
into Loraan, and managed to fool the Athyra. Her search for Aliera's
soul confirmed to me the existance of a relationship between Orlaan and
Loraan.

Something I've wondered about Loraan, ever since we found out that if
someone gets killed before the gods are finished with them, the gods
might send them back as undead. Since Loraan is undead, some god
(Verra's sister?) must be really pissed off at Vlad right about now.
Unless there is more than one way to get undead.
Rachel