On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Matthew Hunter wrote:
> I've always interperted that passage to mean that Sethra was
> supposed to hamstring Dolivar ("the yendi", because he was a
> sneaky ex-Dragon), but did not; and her (deliberate?) act of
> mercy in leaving Dolivar uncrippled enabled him to found the
> Jhereg and get them included in the Cycle, and then later
> resulted in one of the brothers dying -- possibly at the other's
> hand.
Somewhere around this section of the (possibly not 100% canonical) Text
it is explained that the political cost to Kieron of including the Jhereg
in the Empire was so great that it lead to his death.