On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Jot Powers wrote: > >The theory I posted on my web page was: > >We also found out that the god's decide who comes back as undead, >because they still have work to do. I found this to be really >interesting, as Loraan came back as an undead. I suspect because >Vlad's knives were getting dull. It could be that Vlad is the god's >equivalent of soap operas, and they wanted to make sure that they >would get good ratings during 'Sweeps Week'. > In our world, television "sweeps" last an entire month, not just a week. Since the gods are even longer-lived than Dragaerans, it would probably be something like "Sweeps Century". Conincidentally enough, an Easterner lifespan is about a century. Hmmmm. Vlad the Ratings-Booster? He's even got a cute little jhereg to please the animal lovers. Paarfi would perhaps be the equivalent of PBS. :-)