On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 11:26:10PM -0400, FRIEDA2133 at aol.com wrote: > "he, with great care, not wishing to embed himself into a solid > piece of rock, nor to scatter himself to the six winds, bethought > himself of an image of the door leading into Dzur Mountain that he > had first seen, closing his eyes until he was convinced he could > see with all the clarity that he would have if he had been standing > in front of it; then, drawing exactly enough energy, he executed > the teleport, becoming, in effect, non-existent for some few > seconds while he was in two places at once, and then, casting loose > of his now tenuous grip on his position at Castle Black, permitted > himself, not without a certain disorienting shift, to exist in the > place he had seen with his mind's eye; he emerged, therefore, > outside of a particular door into Dzur Mountain. The teleport was > complete. > > Sethra Lavode, paperback, Chapter the Eighty-Fourth, page 192-193. Hmm. Does this mean that all Dragaereans capable of teleporting via sorcery are actually gods? Or perhaps demons, if they can be controlled. Or is Paarfi simply not a metaphysicist?