*Anyway, if she wasn't undead, ie, wasn't a Vampire, then how could she have lived the 150000 years beforehand? Obviously she's more than just Sethra Lavode. Perhaps Vampires are not techically "undead" to Steve, or to Dragaerans. Perhaps undead means to them only that they have returned from the Paths of the Dead, or never went there when they "died" and were able to basically revivify themselves because their soul was separate from their body when they died. Perhaps even by Morganti means.* Sethra states in Issola that she's become one with Dzur mountain before. This might have slowed her aging to the extreme, even for a Dragaeran. It also meshes with the "Dzur Mountain is a spaceship" theory-hibernation boothes, anyone? * *