On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 15:27, Jot Powers wrote: > On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 11:42:21AM -0500, Jag wrote: > > > > I think there's more to it than that. After rereading Taltos over > > Thanksgiving, I picked up on a few things. He was intentionally picked > > to go to the Paths to help revive Aliera. Morever, we see evidence that > > he was intentionally picked by both Sethra AND Verra (that nice vial of > > blood). > > It took me a minute to realize that you meant 'He' == 'Vlad', not > Loraan. Most of my comment was about Loraan. Sorry about that. > > > Now, the interesting thing is, if we assume the Gods let Loraan become > > undead so that Vlad would have a way to get Spellbreaker, then we have > > the Jenoine giving him one of the other parts of Godslayer. In this > > case, the new kickass, can kill a God, Vlad, is really and truly a very > > loose canon. > > Vlad got Spellbreaker the first time he met Loraan, who was not > undead. In the process of getting Spellbreaker, Loraan became dead, > and the later, Undead. That is the part I was questioning, why > did the gods let Loraan back, and I contend it was for their amusement. Thank you. You're right. For some reason I was thinking that the first time Vlad faced Loraan, that Loraan was already undead. I forgot that Loraan later came back undead (in Athyra?). Guess that invalidates my theory. Oh well. Jag