> On 11/8/05, Bryan Newell <bryann at bryann.net> wrote: > > Be warned there be Spoilers ahead for the following books: > > > > Sethra Lavode > > Brokedown Palace > > Issola *applause* > > > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * spoiler space * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > > > > > > 2. Verra is slain (or, perhaps more accurately, "banished" from the > > East) in Brokedown Palace. Why can she still manifest in > the Empire (see Issola)? > > Is the Empire a different "plane of existence" than the East? > > Tri'nagore is also slain in the East, and yet there seems > to be little > > doubt that he is banished from the Empire as well as the > East. Does > > this imply that Dzur Mountain and the Lesser Sea of Chaos (the two > > places Verra manifests in > > Issola) are on different planes of existence than the rest of the > > world of Dragaera? > > > >> I don't think that it would make sense to conclude that >> different locations, which we know can be reached by simple >> physical motion on the surface of the planet, are on >> different planes of existence. > >I'm not disagreeing with you at all, but to clarify my original question: >what I was halfway thinking about possibly hinting at was that, perhaps, the >Sea of Chaos (both of them?) and Dzur Mountain essentially "straddle" >multiple planes, and so Verra can manifest there. Or perhaps the presence of all that raw Amorphia right nearby causes a weakness in whatever it is that keeps her from appearing on Dragaera? I just keep thinking about the beginning of "Phoenix", where Verra has to influence Vlad to call her name, then BRINGS HIM to her halls, rather than simply appearing in Adrilankha. Of course, if I were a god, I probably wouldn't want to spend much time in the Easterner's Ghetto, either. :-) >If this were true, Deathgate Falls and the cave Zerika exits the Paths of >the Dead from would probably also qualify as places Verra could manifest. > >Consider Morrolan's Tower. I would think that regardless of which theory is >true, Verra should be able to manifest there. At the very least, we know that Verra has influence on events that occur on Dragaera. (The very existance of Morrolan's Window is direct evidence of this). Whether or not the window being there is enough to permit manifestation in a place from whence she has been expelled is another question, however. (Not that I'm saying she can't, just that we have no evidence either way, really.) Majikjon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://dragaera.info/pipermail/dragaera/attachments/20051114/f8a3635d/attachment.htm