On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:45:27AM -0500, Ken Koester wrote: > >2) I think that Sethra has been training Vlad to become a Lavode. > >She mentioned in the story that she and the empress both believe that > >disbanding that order was a mistake. > I can't see that, myself. Vlad's an ephemeral, comparatively; wouldn't > seem to be worth her time to train him for that career . . . > It's not out of the question that Sethra--or others--have been training > Vlad for some other sort of career, though . . . Sethra says explicitly that Vlad has been or is being trained for something. I don't have the exact reference at hand, sorry. -- "There's a lot of my personality in my characters. I think that's why smart-asses are over-represented." Christopher Moore, in http://www.chrismoore.com/world_domination.htm