> So the latest thing I don't understand about _TPotD_ is: what's Sethra's > reasoning behind her decisions? If I understand the timing, she sent > Sethra the Younger to pick up Zivra, then a few days later sent Kytraan to > pick up Piro - why not send one expedition, except to have the advantage > of a separation and a reunion scene? Could this be the heavy hand of > Paarfi? > > I could be misremembering, but didn't Sethra state that Piro was > specifically there at Zerika's request? In other words, Sethra didn't > know, when she sent for Zerika, that Zerika would ask for Piro shortly > after she arrived.First, I'm new here.. It took a second reading of PoTD to find the nifty website credit. It seems possible that Piro didn't go with sethra and Zivra, because they had to start Zivra's education as a Pheonix /right away/ and haveing the Piro along as a distraction (and by the way haveing him being bored while Z spent all this time learning the secret knowledge... Seems to me one of the most dangerous things in dragera is a bored Tiassa...) Not to mentionthat Piro wouldn't be privy to the Pheonix house secrets. Naturally this also gave us time to meet Kavraan and Daro again as well as Lar.As for the gods, it seems pretty clear taht Sethra is doing her thing on her own, and the gods have their dicussion after they realize what the Enchantress is up to. Remember according to the gods themselves, there is little real communicaition between the real world and the Halls of Judgement.Tom Swenson