On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, David Silberstein wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Philip Hart wrote: > > > > >> The Lyorn is presumably unbiased and not corruptable. > > > >Like, say, Shaltre? > > <*rolls eyes*> No, like Temma. 'That's not one of your more attractive expressions.' > 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. The Lyorn have a special rule for Shaltres... I'll save you the trouble of noting that this rule might well have been unknown for lack of use, which is why no one thought about it at the end of _TPG_. > Hmm. Perhaps Shaltre was secretly a Yendi. Cuckoo! [unresolvable political arguments snipped] > >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. I think she doesn't _publicly_ do it is so that she isn't later tainted. In fact she knew that Norathar was the rightful heir, but wanted to save her for other purposes later, and dipping her in the Jhereg milieu was a useful side-effect. > >> 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. Baritt (until just before _Yendi_), SiG, StY, and a lot of loose threads - Norathar herself, and the nonsense about Tierella. Recall Temma's immediate awareness that "Pel" was a nom de guerre. I doubt a false Athyran name would be overlooked by a picked Lyorn, to say nothing of a bunch of prominent Dragons (under your 2nd-test-in-the-presence-of-the-council scenario). > >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? There's no statute of limitations on avenging the deaths of your parents. You're right re tSiG - the whole kill-her-resurrect-her-it's-all-good thing is hard for me to internalize. I think Norathar has to go kill StY and an e'Baritt.