On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote: >> IIRC, "The Lavode Scandal" was, indeed, a couple hundred years before the >> events of TPG, yes? >> >> And Sethra is said to have been dead "For several Hundred Years" prior to >> this. >> >> Either way, it doesn't make a dent in the 220,000 year history of the >> Empire. > >Either way it's not evidence of anything except that she's been dead >recently. Which is exactly the point I was originally trying to make. :-) >You might consider the possibility that Sethra was joking about how long >she had been dead - perhaps in reference to how long she got away with her >pretence. Or being coolly disdainful to some upstart Athyra who >discovered her status - "You're dead!" "Yes, I have been dead for some >hundreds of years. Perhaps you will be dead in some hundredths of >seconds." Tee hee. I like the supposition. It does, indeed, sound like something Sethra would say. (Especially considering the "Athyra" in question was likely Empress Cherova III...) Majikjon