On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 17:16, Damien Sullivan wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:12:10AM -0500, Jag wrote: > > > > > > I believe that, to Dragaeran "necromancers" (and to the Jenoine), > > > "aliveness" is in some way translatable into "location" -- perhaps > > > in a similar way to how Einsteinian physics sees space and time as > > > inextricably bound-up aspects of each other. > > > > I seem to recall at one point that someone claims that the Necromancer > > just considers being alive and dead a matter of energy levels. But it > > In _Yendi_, when Sethra had StY exiled, didn't she say she had the Necromancer > move StY to another plane? (Where time passed faster.) And the Necromancer > is the one trying to keep the Jenoine from skedaddling in _Dragon_. Good point.. Perhaps she's just skilled in more than one thing, or more likely, necromancy for her is a combination of location and energy levels.