On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Philip Hart wrote: > > >On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, David Silberstein wrote: > >> On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Philip Hart wrote: > >> >Why throw in a Lyorn, if the council was watching? >> >> The Lyorn is presumably unbiased and not corruptable. > >Like, say, Shaltre? <*rolls eyes*> No, like Temma. The reason Shaltre got away with stuff is that he was a Lyorn, who do, in fact, have a reputation for being incorruptable. They wouldn't have this reputation if more of them were like Shaltre. Hmm. Perhaps Shaltre was secretly a Yendi. >The Lyorn is supposed to watch the event, which consists of someone >watching a spell being cast and saying Yup or Nope. The only reason >a Lyorn would be useful would be to carry the Y or N to the council. > Perhaps. I can also see them using the Lyorn so that the House Lyorn will record the results in their archives - seperate from House Dragon, where there might be parties interested in tampering with them. > >> > Why not have an e'Lanya wizard check, too? Hell, probably several >> > of the council members could have done it - if say Adron was on the >> > council. > >> Bzzzt! Adron is the one who will be re-Heired if the gene scan finds >> mixbreedness. An e'Lanya would presumably also be biased. > >Bzzzt! Adron wouldn't have put his interests above the truth. How do *we* know that? How does the council know that? >An e'Lanya might have done the same - anyway the line would want >to confirm the truth. Again, why involve interested parties? This is politics going on here. >Also, bzzzt! again, because Aliera makes the call that Norathar is a >Dragon. She's biased because she doesn't want the throne, _like all >Dragons_. > Yes, and as you point out, she is *biased*. The gene scan must be also re-done by non-biased parties. For the same reason, it doesn't matter if Adron wants the throne or not. He's an *interested party*. As an accomplished sorcerer, he could skew the results either way, depending on what he secretly wants. > >> >Why not have Sethra do the scan? She's apolitical and of >> >unimpeachable integrity. >> Possibly, possibly. However, she is the one who brought the matter to >> the Dragon Council in the first place - I can see procedure being put >> in place to have as many disinterested parties as possible. [snip] >And if I was the greatest expert in magic in the world, I >think I'd do the scan myself just for practice. Amusing pararectal notion: Sethra not doing it herself might be a hint of her not being purely of one House. She knows that House purity is important to the Empire, but she doesn't like to do the work of enforcing it. >> The problem was that the Dragon Council did not realize that there was >> collusion between Baritt, SiG & Sethra Jr. > >I think this is an impossible level of conspiracy. Three can keep a secret if two are dead. >Also I find it impossible to imagine that Norathar didn't proceed to >challenge the SiG and StY to duels-to-the-death. When? When the accusation occurred, she was an *infant*. Once the truth came out, didn't she help M & A & V take down tSiG anyway?