On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 20:13, Gametech wrote:
> Tucker wrote:
> > I'd feel bad about not leaving spoiler space, but hey-- StY shows up
> > in the cast list.
> >
> >> Someone commented that StY wouldn't survive the last volume. Since
> >> she appears in several of the Vlad novels, this seems unlikely.
> >
> > Yeah, but _Paths_ was written at least 179 years after Issola
> > ("Norath. II 179"). So there's plenty of room to bring the Paarfi
> > novels _beyond_ Vlad's lifetime.
>
> Yeah, well I've got a sneaking suspicion about 'Great weapons' and how they
> affect a persons lifespan (because of the connection to the soul, and if I'm
> not mistaken all Undead means is a dead body with an active soul), that is
> the only person whom I can see reference to having died - from being
> killed - is Kieron, Sethra is 'Special' I'll admit but she is both a weilder
> of a Great weapon and has not died from 'natural' causes (to my knowledge),
> she is however now Undead. Aliera and Morrolan are both living and both
> weilders of Great weapons and both decently young so to see if 'natural'
> causes is something to be seen, Vlad now carries a Great weapon, but in all
> reality he will die well before 'natural causes' get a chance to set in at
> the rate he goes - even if it's only 30-40 years off for 'natural' causes to
> set in.
>
> What I want to know is if any other weilders of Great weapons are either
> Undead or older than a natural lifespan not being Undead, or if all weilders
> of Great weapons that are older than 'normal' are Undead (having first had
> the Great weapon before Undeath)
>
> *natural causes* = old age when the body fails.
Since we're speaking of lifespans, did anyone else notice that the
Sorceress in Green seemed to be alive a lot longer than the typical 2-3
thousand years for a Dragaeran? Anyone have any ideas? Maybe she does
have a Great Weapon of some sort? Or maybe she somehow prolonged
herself with sorcery. Although if that's the case, I don't see how she
survived the Interregnum.
Jag