Jose Marquez wrote on Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:40:25 -0500
>Going back to chaos, this means that either the
>Jenoine deliberately built-in chaos-creation abilities in three (or
>more) lab rats, or these lab rats gained these abilities through
>mutation (possibly Verra-aided mutation?), which in my mind takes
>parents that are not Jenoine.
>Thoughts?
Hi,
I think the chaos-creation abilities came from Verra without the
Jenoine knowing about it.
I think it happened like this:
The Jenoine send at least one slave to capture a dragon.
A nasty-looking dragon was captured and then Bolk dragged that
dragon over to Verra.
Verra gives some of her blood to the dragon without the Jenoine
knowing.
Three Jenoine then used pieces of that dragon to create a certain
line of Dragons. Either then or later, that line included Kieron,
D*livar and a third person who eventually was reincarnated as Aliera.
Why do I think that?
I think it is fun to speculate especially while waiting for another
book to be written.
I am omen-ridden.
I tend to get obscure ideas based on just one word appearing in two
books.
I did not think of the horse as Bolk though. That was Thomas
Yan's idea. I was concentrating on the word plow and missed the
whole horse/bolk idea.
"harness me to a horse and use me as a plow" {huh? horse=Bolk? :)}
Thomas Yan
http://www.mojoworld.net/sil/fandom/dbs/dbsa_athyra.html
Vlad having fever dreams in Athyra:
"'Did someone harness me to a horse and use me as a plow?'
'No.'
'I suspected that was a dream. Were there three little tiny
people standing around me arguing about who got what pieces of my
body, and what to do with the rest?'"
The Book of Athyra, Athyra, Chapter 10, page 119.
To a dragon, even Jenoine might seem like little tiny people.
A fable in Brokedown Palace:
"So I walked back until I came into the mountains. There was a
dragon there, and a nasty-looking one at that. I sang the dragon
to sleep so I wouldn't have to worry about it."
...
"Then I picked up the dragon (I was strong in those days) and
used its head to plow"
...
"Of course, the dragon was pretty angry by then, and I was
starting to have some trouble with him. So I went over to the
Demon Goddess's house and said, 'Here, you can have this.'"
Brokedown Palace, Interlude, page 197.
Another thing that made me think that Vlad might have access to
the memories of a real dragon was this from the book Dragon:
"Even in a painting, there was something powerful and intriguing
about the way those tentacle-like appendages around its neck seemed
to wave and flutter--apparently at random, yet there was a purpose
in it. And the expression on the dragon's face spoke of necessity,
but of a certain joy as well. The wound in its side, which was
closest to me, was skillfully rendered to evoke pity but not disgust,
and even in the young dragon there was a certain hint that, though
requiring protection, it was still a dragon, and thus not to be
trifled with either.
My eye kept returning to those tentacles, however, as if they
were a puzzle that might be solved, revealing--what?"
Dragon, paperback, Chapter 3, page 56.
Bye.
Linda G.