Well, I'm temporarily afb right now, but my recollection is that in Issola, Sethra tells Vlad (when questioned about it) that Verra said it was important that Vlad be given the blood (presumably from Verra herself). It makes the events of Taltos seem almost preordained, in that Verra devised a plan to (accidently) let her favorite dragonlord escape the paths a living man. ...So, Verra tells Sethra to give Vlad the blood, but didn't explain why, only saying that it was important. Sethra then gives the blood to Vlad, in an exchange of favors, with the excuse that it was dangerous for her to have it just then... Dr. Kathleen Pereillo wrote: > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Howard Brazee [mailto:howard at brazee.net] >>Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 12:19 PM >>To: dragaera at dragaera.info >>Subject: Re: answer #2 >> >>On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:55:57 -0700, Jeff G. <Log0n5150 at hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>>PS: Ohhhhhh, I had a revelation while proofreading. Kiera (Sethra) >>>said it >>>was dangerous for her to hold onto the vial of Verra's blood. If I >>> >>> >>recall >> >> >>>correctly, this was also the same time she fought the Jenoine at Dzur >>> >>> >>Mt. >> >> >>>Was that why she gave it to Vlad, to remove it from Drageara while the >>>Jenoine were present, to prevent them from acquiring it to use against >>>Verra? I haven't read that book in a while, so my recollection of the >>>timeline is a bit spotty. >>> >>> >>Since she was not at all upset that Vald "lost" it, I suspect it got used >>for its intended purpose, even if she didn't know what that intended >>purpose was at the time. >> >> > >IIRC, Kiera gave Vlad the vial several years prior, while he still owned the >restaurant. [Briefly - she secretly paid taxes, so he "would owe her a >favor" and when he asked if could do her a favor, and she produced the vial >for him to keep for 'not long, about 20 years, or so'.] > >Although, the idea that having the vial of goddess blood might somehow >dangerous to hold for Kiera/Orca spoiler, and the Jenoine connection is >interesting... >K- > > > -- Life, thy name is Irony ...Or, something like that. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://dragaera.info/pipermail/dragaera/attachments/20050308/77a46d4e/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.6.4 - Release Date: 3/7/2005