On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:23:29 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
>> (As an aside, since there were still Lavodes in tPG, about a thousand years
>> ago, the "Lavode scandal" was probably not the discovery that Sethra was
>> undead.)
>
>On the contrary, I think it highly likely that the discovery of her undead
>nature was part of "The Lavode Scandal". (I am agnostic as to whether
>that discovery was cause or effect.) I'm AFB, so can't quote all my
>reasoning, but here's the references from my timeline:
>
> ??? BI
> The Lavodes are disbanded "before the Interregnum" (Is 199). [This may
> be an otherwise unreferenced event, or it may refer to the period (late
> in Tortaalik's reign) when Sethra was officially removed from command.]
>
> ~750 BI??
> The Lavode Scandal (PG 30).
> Sethra banned from court, resigns as head of the Lavodes ("many years
> ago", PG 49). This may be a result of the discovery that she is now
> undead (FH 98).
>
>If "head of the Lavodes" was considered an Imperial Office (unknown,
>but seems reasonably likely), than by holding it while undead, Sethra
>would have been in blatant violation of the law.
>
>It should be noted that "The Lavode Scandal" and the "Disbanding of
>the Lavodes" may not be the same event.
>
>Alexx
I seem to recall a whole mess of Lavodes involved in the battle
against Adron in FHYA. I suppose being dissolved in a sea of amorphia
could be considered "disbanding".
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