On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 09:38:23PM -0700, David Silberstein <davids at kithrup.com> wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Mia McDavid wrote: > > >I disremember how long Zerika has been on the throne when Vlad comes > >on the scene; > > According to our esteemed collegue's timeline page on the > world-spanning weave, here: > > http://world.std.com/~alexx/timeline.txt > > /Phoenix/ takes place approximately 244 years after the end of the > Interregnum. > > > could Laszlo have in face died, been reincarnated, and grown up? > > This might or might not be possible; to the right, Easterners are > usually short-lived, to the left, while their souls, as we know, are > not usually accepted on the Paths of the Dead, this does not preclude > some other mechanism from allowing them to reincarnate. To the contrary, the Paths of the Dead are a mechanism to, basically, prevent reincarnation. According to Aliera's spiel, if you die, your soul goes elsewhere. If you have no pact with some deity, then it eventually finds a new home to reincarnate into; otherwise it goes to the deity you contracted with. This applies to souls of both kinds (Easterners, Dragaereans) when in the natural state. However, some Dragaereans are sent to the Paths of the Dead so that the Gods may judge and guide the soul towards their own purposes, rather than an effectively random reincarnation. This short-circuits the normal process. At least, that's how I understood the explanation. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp