Dragaera

Paths of the Dead *spoilers*

Sat Dec 7 20:57:35 PST 2002

On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 20:42, Gaertk at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 12/6/2002 5:06:47 PM Eastern Standard 
> Time, Matthew Hunter <matthew at infodancer.org> writes:
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> > On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 04:03:25PM -0600, Gametech 
> > <voltronalpha at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> >> *spoilers to follow*
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> >> 3. I seemed to think that the pyrologist was *sent* to 
> >> Whitegrest Manor more than arrived there because of what 
> >> he said had made him come, I can't seem to remember what 
> >> caused me to think this, but Pel and our Lyorn friend come
> >> to mind. Khaavren will of course stop wallowing (I should 
> >> hope that if I have made any other assumptions, that this 
> >> one not be one I am incorrect about), Good. Gimmie more.
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> > Pel was the one who paid a witch to give someone an idea. 
> > That "idea" was that the pyrologist go to Khaavren (witness 
> > his false vision).
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> This is bugging me a bit because it *wasn't* a false vision.
> He had a vision of a corpse in Adrilankha that seemed to have 
> died from the plague.  Because of that vision, he left home 
> and traveled to Adrilankha, and found an actual corpse that
> matched his vision (but not his interpretation).  So what was 
> the idea that Pel gave him?  And how long had that fellow 
> been a corpse?  Could Pel have known of his death?

A more likely explination is that the pyrologist went looking until he
happened to find a man with the same symtoms, who looked kinda like the
guy in his vision.  In other words, it was probablly coincidence.


Jag