Dragaera

The Plot is Discussed *spoilers for PotD*

Michael Barr barr at barrs.org
Mon Dec 23 18:37:21 PST 2002

I have been lurking till now, but am moved to reply to this.  I agree and
I add in evidence that she was apparently unaware what happened to
Aliera's sole, which has now been captured by Grita, to many later
regrets. So Sethra knows a lot, but not everything.

On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Andrew Lias wrote:

> * * * * SPOILERS * * * *
> 
> >Subject:
> >In Which the Plot of "The Viscount of Adrilankha",
> >Much in the Manner of a Lady Who Has Dared to Sport a
> >Bold New Style, Is Discussed (which discussion
> >contains information that may spoil certain surprises
> >to the reader unfamiliar with the volume "Paths of the
> >Dead").
> 
> This is a magnificent post and I only wish that I could follow it up in the 
> same style.  Alas, my time is too constrained (which is, to say, that this 
> is not a constraint of wits, or so I would hope) to reply in kind.  As such, 
> I must content our gentle readership with a brief note, indeed, barely a 
> sketch, against that day that I may frame a proper reply on the order of 
> five to six-thousand pages (though any amount of mere text must be 
> understood to be secondary to the quality of the words that they encypher; 
> as such I can only endeavor that this future response shall constain an 
> abundance of quality to match the quantity obtained even as I hope that this 
> very reply that I am composing on this Universal Turing Machine that I 
> pretend to call a Computer shall quality in excess of its brevity).
> 
> That said, I have a hypothesis, although one that can neither, I believe, be 
> verified nor discounted at this present point.  It is my suspicion that 
> Sethra did *not* ascertain the survival of the Orb until shortly before the 
> events depicted.  Certainly, given that it resides in the very Halls of 
> Judgement and given that Sethra does not have free access to those self-same 
> Halls, and, certainly, given that ordinary sorcery no longer obtains, even a 
> one as powerful and perceptive as Sethra may have had to spend some small 
> amount of time determining that the Orb survived that grand and terrible 
> Cataclysm that we pretend to call The Interregnum, and then, once that 
> information was secured, calling forth her talents to discern its location.
> 
> 
> 
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