> > In Yendi, when they're all speaking about Norathar's parents being > killed in battle, Norathar asks why they were not revivified. Sethra > answers, "I don't know. They were in the battle, but I didn't kill them > personally. They both had massive head injuries due to sorcery. Beyond > that, I can't tell you." To me, this implies that revivification was at > least possible before FHYA, as Sethra does not answer with > "revivification was impossible at the time." I think this has to count as one of those "early-book inconsistencies" that long series are often prone to. I'd be willing to accept that either Norathar or Sethra had a brain-fart, but not both at once. Or, of course, we can fall back on that old standby, and blame the error on Brust-The- Translator: "Huh, I wonder why Vlad didn't put in anything about revivification here? He probably just forgot. I'll just slip in a guess to cover the plot hole..." Perhaps SKZB will fix it in a later edition. (He has done that for a few such things already, such as references to "24 hours" being the length of a day.) 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 "Ah! I know how to solve a problem of this type! Give it to Alexx..." -- Rick