----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Olson" <Chrisf.Olson at Sun.COM> To: "Scott Schultz" <scott at cjhunter.com> Cc: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 11:00 AM Subject: Re: Kiera, Verra, and divine motivations > Scott Schultz wrote: > > As for Verra and Barlen - Barlen is not a demon that I'm aware of. Verra > > might have been a demon at some point in the past (there's a reason she's > > called the Demon Goddess, after all). > > Hmm...Verra is called the Demon Goddess by Easterners, not Dragaerans. > I suspect this is because the Easterners were the ones who summoned her > (well, one of them, at any rate) and banished her from a Kingdom. I've > always thought that was the reason she was called a Demon. > > But maybe it's because of that extra knuckle--Easterners are a > superstitious lot. <grin> > > Chris > > I had two ideas about her name. First, she was a servant of the Jenoine, as described by Sethra, so she could be called a demon for that reason. Or, perhaps her name comes from the ability to control demons. (possibly learned >from the Jenoine while she was a demon?) Jeff