s p o i l e r s etc etc I'm sure whoever you're referring to bows back. I just want to jump back in on this point, since I appear to agree with the bowee, that Pel's point in his confession of Zerika would still apply - even if Lazlo dies on occasion, Z might not be going bad for the very reason that he's around, so the Cycle arranges for his soul to reappear in the proper circumstances to make Z happy... Re Vlad and his soul - he has hate/love child/predator relationship with Dragearans, and might well in some sense be proud as well as ashamed to have the same sort of soul as Morrolan and Aliera... On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Mia McDavid wrote: > Good sir: > > I bow before your superior scholarship. > > It would be rather a stretch that Laszlo should be reincarnate with the > same name, though, I suppose, not impossible. It is more likely, > methinks, that through some sorcery, possibly aided by her intimate > association with the Orb, Zerika has been able to keep him alive and, > one hopes, young and fit. > > It would certainly be dreary for a human to have a lover that took ill > and died every few decades; one would then have to find his > reincarnation and wait for it to attain adulthood; a most tedious lapse. > > As to the nature of human and Easterner souls: While the Easterner > Taltos (I suppose we should be more respectful; is he not in fact a > Baron now?) is known to both err and lie, it is not clear to me that he > willfully lies *to his readers*. Further, if he were going to lie about > anything, I would think it would be (at least by omission) about the > fact that his soul is that of a Dragon and a traitor. This fact, > revealed to him by Aliera, is most unpalatable, not to mention shaming, > to him, and I cannot think that he should wish to reveal it. Yet he > does. Is this not strange. > > Your obedient Servant, > > Mia M'Daffyd > > >