On 4/28/05, K Kuhn <kknolte at ecity.net> wrote: > On the assumption that most people wouldn't want to pretend that they > just got turned into a teckla. nor that Dragaeran authors usually kill > off their heroes that way - does that passage mean that there's been a > Dzurlord who has managed to win against Sethra (history) [1]? Or is it > simply the usual way Dragaeran authors show their (fictional) Dzurlord > as being the Greatest Dzur Hero Ever!? I think it's a way of showing that Dzur are obsessed with heroics, even heroic deaths. Max Wilson -- I die! I mis-remember my friend's telephone number and dial into a hydroelectric dam's power line, electrocuting myself. My roommates mistake my flailing spasms for sign language, coincidentally describing a delicious recipe for fried tungsten with petroleum jelly. They try the recipe. All die! O, the embarassment.