Jose Marquez wrote: <snip> > > I am confused as to how you think the Issola review touches on Aliera's > history; I'm therefore confused as to how whatever you're referring to > would make Vlad more unreliable. I beg you for enlightenment! *grin* Aliera's soul survived quite nicely in an artifact (a staff) and then was reborn to where she was when 'killed', so the other idea is theoretically possible. Vlad thought at the end that he did the defragging and melding, while if the idea in the review was correct, it might not have been much needed from him at all. Karen