At 09:13 AM 1/25/2005 -0700, Howard Brazee wrote: >On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:16:47 -0800, Timothy Scott ><ivanyouidiot at earthlink.net> 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. > >His expected lifespan might be an issue here. Could be that spoiler spoiler spoiler in "Issola" has changed that, in which case it would just be a question of whether Sethra could've seen that coming. Or it could be that Sethra is thinking in terms of effectiveness rather than lifespan when picking Lavodes. Vlad might well get in on that basis.