> Dr. Elmo wrote: > > WRT Sethra, I was more thinking of her acting as Morrolan's > > general. She's not eligible for Warlord because of the ban > > on undead serving in imperial roles. > > Given that it was explicitly mentioned that Sethra has been Warlord several > times, it seemed to me like, that was either a) a recent[1] restriction > (?ca. the Lavode scandal?) or b) one that only became an issue relatively > recently (i.e. either S. recently became undead or it was only recently > revealed that she is in fact undead). I cannot recall where this is > discussed, but it is a fairly strong recollection otherwise. > > Casey > > [1] The term 'recent' wrt Sethra is, of course, a relative term :). Option B is the case. Sethra was still alive during the Fourteenth Cycle, but by the time of the Lavode Scandal had been dead for "hundreds of years", so that brackets the possible time of her death. (Both of these data points come from Paarfi, page 98 of FHYA.) Since she had already remained alive for well over 100,000 years by whenever she died, people obviously didn't feel the need to hypothesize that he age was due to undeath. Indeed, it's been my supposition that the Lavode Scandal is largely *due* to the discovery of Sethra's undead nature. (This is supported, though hardly proved, by the few references we have to the LS.) 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 "What we desire our children to become, we must endeavour to be before them." -- Andrew Combe