> -----Original Message----- > From: Steven Brust [mailto:skzb at dreamcafe.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 4:15 AM > To: Jot Powers; dragaera at dragaera.info > Subject: Re: Taltos Spoilers (was: Not really POTD, but has spoilers) > > > At 03:09 AM 12/10/2002 -0700, Jot Powers wrote: > >On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:19:46AM -0800, Steven Brust wrote: > > > At 04:56 PM 12/9/2002 -0700, Jot Powers wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >Vlad: "Aren't you supposed to be here?" > > > >Devera: "Not really. I haven't really been born yet..." > > > > > > > >(pg 79) > > > > > > > >This supports the time travel theory, IMO. > > > > > > I can actually answer this, if people want to know my > take on it. > > > If the consenses is that speculation is more fun, however, I can > > > understand that. > > > >I vote for your view on it. Hell, there is enough you're > intentionally > >vague or misleading on, I enjoy the occasional bone of > clarification. > >:) > > > Okay.... > > > <spoiler space> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I see it like this: There is no time travel as it is usually > understood by > us skiffy types. But time can do strange things, especially > in the Paths > of the Dead, and Verra's Halls. Devera was conceived in the > Paths of the > Dead and was born in Verra's Halls. > > Time doesn't work for her the way it does for others, and she > can often > skip around in it. > > So, I guess, there is a limited sort quasi-time travel, in a way. That's how I saw it, based on comments made about how time passes in the Paths & Halls. However, this would be way up on my list of Things I Wouldn't Want To Do in the Paths of the Dead. Even if I did have the blood of a goddess. Having the blood of a goddess (or god) means one can come & go as one pleases in the Paths of the Dead. Right now we know that includes Aliera & Morrolan. I wonder how Adron came to get involved with Verra, anyway. I think I remembered some discussion about Kieron being Devera's father, but after she appeared as a dragon in Issola, I wished he hadn't been her father. It would have been cool if her father had been a dragon. I wonder how she managed that trick anyway. I know she has dragon genes, but to show up as a dragon? Other Dragons we know can't manage that, and they've got dragon genes. Rachel