Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> wrote: >We've seen one character unwittingly calling amphoria he could not >control. We've seen another character who didn't appear to be interested >in anything except his own magical experiments - certainly not about his >serfs. But none of those characters are MAD applicable. Accidents aren't deterrable, and being a bad supervisor surely doesn't make one an insane murderer. >We've seen characters who don't have the same standards about >people who created a whole river of amphoria for their own inscrutable >ends. Weren't the jenoine the creators of the river of amorphia you're talking about (and so in a whole different catagory? they aren't deterrable. Sethra has to either keep them out of Dragaera or kill them). >Off the main stage, we've seen a character willing to kill our favorite goddess. Because she was holding his family down. Also he didn't use Dragaeran magic but received help from a friend. >We've seen the cause of the interregnum. He wasn't trying to destroy the orb but take it for himself. He wanted to overthrow the decadent pheonix, and he also was unable to see all the consequences of his actions. I doubt he would have acted had he known the consequences (in MAD and deterrence, both parties clearly know the consequences) >We've seen characters experiment in proscribed elder sorcery. Yes, but not to overthrow or threaten the empire. Also, I doubt the empress would care that certain individuals possess those skills and use them when necessary (aka visiting Jenoine). The empire just doesn't want the books of pre-empire sorcery to be widely available and experimented with. It's one thing for Morrolan, a known supporter of the empress, to experiment; it's another altogether for a Teckla in Kelly's band to have access to that type of sorcery.