Jot Powers wrote: >On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:42:16PM -0500, FRIEDA2133 at aol.com wrote: > >[*snip*] > [*ditto*] >It still doesn't explain why the Lords of Judgement let Loraan become >Undead. It seems to be something in their bailiwick. > We're assuming that the only way to become Undead is via the Sethra Lavode route: you have something important you need to do, so you have to leave the Paths to do it. This method was presented to us as a means of getting out of the Paths, not as a means to become Undead. Loraan, as a necromancer, probably knows exactly what he has to do to become Undead without, say, having to go to the Paths, and if the stories are true, the reason Blackwand didn't kill him dead was because he didn't keep his soul in his body, possibly for study, possibly for protection. This seems to be an archetypal thing that necromancers/wizards/evil magic types do in stories, at least in the popular Russian folk tales that I read as a child (in Spanish, since I don't know Russian and didn't know English until years later). Loraan probably had some kind of condition for becoming dead; i.e., if Dead, then become Undead. As he has no interest in meeting the Lords of Judgment that he may or may not have antagonized (according to Paarfi, who is economical with the truth), he has a fallback plan; the gods don't interfere 'cause they're patient and know they'll get him in the end (they always do). Jose -- Jose Marquez | There are 10 types of people in jhereg69 at earthlink.net | the world: those who understand http://www.hackwater.com | binary, and those who don't.