[Re-sent to list. Sorry, I hit the "Reply" button instead of "Reply All".] On 11/9/05, Jon Lincicum <lincicum at comcast.net> wrote: > Add to that the fact that most deaths probably occur in battle (sorcery > preventing most deaths by illnress, and accidental deaths resulting (in > most cases) in revivification), and most armies probably arrange for the > disposition of bodies (and threrby, souls) as a part of their general > operation . (This certainly is how it seemed to work for Morrolan's army > in Dragon.) You're thinking like a noble. Revivification, as we see from Yendi, is a very expensive operation for anybody but a crime lord; and we see from Athyra that most Teckla won't rely on sorcery so much as folk medicine to prevent illness. Vlad has a very skewed view of Dragaeran society. SKZB has said that the idea of a character really "knowing what's going on" in his society is implausible to him. > I doubt that the "holding of ransom" of bodies could really be common > enough to matter (any more than the attempt to steal Lincoln's body for > ransom was in the late 19th century). Max Wilson -- Be pretty if you are, Be witty if you can, But be cheerful if it kills you.