On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Ruhlen, Rachel Louise (UMC-Student) wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Philip Hart [mailto:philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU] > Sent: Sat 3/8/2003 7:38 PM > To: Gaertk at aol.com > Cc: dragaera at dragaera.info > Subject: Re: Who's the Best? (was: Concerning Great Weapons ...) > > > > On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 Gaertk at aol.com wrote: > > > > > >Now that I think of it, it's rather odd that Loraan and Istvan > >would work together - did L call up the Jhereg and ask for help? > >Seems unlikely. > > I believe the Jhereg worked a deal with Loraan because they so > badly want Vlad dead, not the other way around. Istvan & Loraan weren't > getting along and Loraan seemed to really hate working WITH a Jhereg > assassin. This doesn't make any sense to me. If I understood _Athyra_, the plot goes like this: 1. Vlad, wandering around aimlessly, passes near Loraan's domain. 2. Loraan in some unspecified way becomes aware of him and kills Reins to get Vlad to stick around (apparently the unspecified way is, uhh, unspecific). 3. Vlad pokes around, realizing eventually that a powerful Athyra wizard who Morrolan/Blackwand weren't able to put down permanently is after him. Maybe the (unspecified, one-off) magical attack he mentions to Savn lets him know. But he decides to poke around some more. Loiosh doesn't object. 4. Loraan realizes Vlad is at the inn (a stakeout? an anonymous phone call?) and sends some flunkies to take him out. Flunkies who are too dumb to trace a teleport. 5. Somewhere in here the Jhereg find out about Vlad's presence somehow and join up with Loraan, who figures he needs some help?