On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, S Lumley / s piotto wrote: #Actually... judging from Yendi i'd say that Sethra has something pretty #freaking wild going on in regards to memory. The scene around the table from #the Godslayer discussion I started earlier had an incident where Sethra digs #back several centuries to remember something. # #(To be precise, that Sethra herself was the one that made the accusation #against Norathar's family.) # #When she did it, she paused, rolled her eyes back into her head and tuned #everybody out for a moment. That doesn't sound anything close to normal #human memory. It sounds more like sorcery or witchcraft or just Sethra being #undead. # #any other theories on this? To me it just looks like the way I or most people I know react when digging back for an old memory, "multiplied" by Sethra's age and both the time-depth and the detail of the memory she is trying to retrieve. -- Mark A. Mandel