On Monday, January 24, 2005, at 10:34AM, Mark Landin <marklandin at gmail.com> wrote: >> Cawti is nowhere near as adept as >> Vlad, but I'd imagine she's dabbled in witchcraft. > >Ok, Cawti may not be skilled enough to alter her own pregnancy, but >other may be ... either witches, or sorcerors. I guess I giving her >more credit than was warranted. :) I believe that it says in _Yendi_ that Cawti is a skilled witch, as Morrolan "ruptures" her vital organs w/ sorcery, which "should have put her into shock". IIRC, Vlad is not surprised by that, and credits it to her skill as a witch. I agree, she may not be as skilled as Vlad (who, I've always thought, is quite adept, as he can improvise teleportation spells of something _to him_, even though they are on different planes of existence. I think that puts him at quite a high skill level, as even using sorcery it's harder to teleport something/someone to yourself rather than away from yourself>), she's still good enough to do moderately difficult things. So, I think it's safe to assume that if she can prevent major organ failure from throwing her own body into shock, that she could tell if she were pregnant. Damn. Now I'll have to re-read Teckla & Phoenix and keep in mind that she knows she's pregnant and see how that falls out. Matthew