Dragaera

Aliera's companion in the Paths of the Dead

Tue Apr 12 13:19:47 PDT 2005

> From: Maximilian Wilson [mailto:wilson.max at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 4:02 PM
> 
> On Apr 12, 2005 9:00 AM, Scott Schultz <scott at cjhunter.com> wrote:
> > Actually, this does raise an interesting question as to what is the
> > qualitative difference between a Dragaeran soul and an Easterner soul.
> The
> > God's could have made a case that Dolivar's soul (assuming it began
> > existence with Dolivar and wasn't someone else before that) was
> inherently a
> > Dragaeran soul but they didn't.
> 
> Well, Aliera certainly thinks there's no difference between the souls,
> and Vlad doesn't deny it... but the Halls of Judgment exist to defend
> the gods' world against the Jenoine. Perhaps the relevant point here
> is that Dragaerans are presumably loyal to the gods, and Easterners
> aren't... and no one ever considered why/how Easterners might become

Noish-pa worships the Demon goddess.
I haven't read the entire canon, but I get the impression that the two
cultures worship the same set of gods. So unless the gods like being treated
more like kings than all-powerful entities (see the Dragaeran
(elvish/fairy/not-Easterner... oh dear...) mellow attitude toward the gods
versus the ... um, other race's attitude) I don't see where the difference
is on that level. It could be a willingness to sacrifice living beings, but
I don't think that's terribly common among Dragaerans either.