Dragaera

Alternate ending for _Jhereg_

Thu Mar 25 14:19:36 PST 2004

> Jerry Friedman wrote:
>
> > I agree with Bob that it must be possible to rob the Jhereg
> > treasury.  Money is for spending, so there have to be trusted
> > people with the authority to take money out, and one of them
> > could steal, if nothing else.
>
> What is interesting is that there IS a crime that's greater than any
> robbery - as defined by every single state in our world.
>
> That crime is killing the head of state.
>
> But the response of the Dragaerans is pretty close to deification of the
> Mario.

It seems to me that Dragaerans have a fairly pragmatic view about such
things, especially about the killing of the old Emperor.  I get the feeling
that they thought the cycle turned because Mario killed the Emperor, and
Adron messed up the whole thing by trying to mess with the Orb.  Mario is
held in awe, especially by the Jhereg, and treated as a force of nature by
the Phoenix guards (i.e. the whole practice of chalking up Murders as "Mario
did it") because he did what should be impossible, the assination of the
nearly godlike Emperor.

Bob
-My other dagger is Morganti