Dragaera

Vlad's not a Jhereg at heart

Howard Brazee howard at brazee.net
Fri Mar 25 14:09:24 PST 2005

Scott Schultz wrote:
>>> Do we know exactly how Aleira's soul was put into that staff?
>> 
> 
> What we know from Sethra is that Loraan found the soul "lying in a
> field". He put it in the staff and stuck the staff into his magical
> soul analyzer. 
> 
> I have no clue what a soul tossed into a cornfield by the equivalent
> of a nuclear explosion would look like but I've always liked the
> imagery. 

That reminds me of what happened in Saberhagen's _Empire of the East_.