> > Philip Hart wrote: > > > These were my interpretations as well. However, I should add from Chapter > > 34 (or Vol II chapter 17) of FHYA: > > > > "In concentrating her powers on sending Aliera after the Orb (thinking > > that this would ensure at least one potential Emperor of the Dragon line, > > which she had thought would immediately take the throne), Sethra ..." > > > > So here is evidence for Sethra having the more or less opposite view. Well, Sethra had very incomplete information about a crisis situation that demanded *immediate* action. Presumably, she made more measured examinations of the state of the Cycle after the Disaster was over. [These may have taken quite a while, what with th Orb being gone, but I'm quite confident that she could get solid information on the Cycle's current state, given time.] > Or, more likely, Paarfi's unreliability as a reporter, either through being > mistaken or deceived. > > I doubt that anything Paarfi claims to know about Sethra's motivations can > be relied upon completely. Completely? Of course not! To the left, Paarfi claims to have carried on some correspondence with Sethra. I'd default to accepting his version, absent significant reasons to doubt it. Alexx Alexx Kay Opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my employers alexx at world.std.com http://world.std.com/~alexx "I once heard an anecdote about a contemporary magician who decided to put this principle to the test by adopting a belief so strange that nobody could possibly mistake it for reality and then seeing what happened. The belief he decided to go with was than Noddy, the little toy-car driving and bell-hat wearing protagonist of Enid Blyton's children's books, was in fact the absolute creator of the Universe and the God of all Gods. Within a couple of weeks he abandoned the experiment in alarm, finding himself on the brink of conclusively proving that Noddy was the Supreme Being." -- Alan Moore, in correspondence with Dave Sim about _From Hell_