Re: Jhereg. Kiera finds Vlad dead in a gutter, Sethra revives him. So no go there. On 12/4/05, Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 12/4/05, Jon Lincicum <lincicum at comcast.net> wrote: > > Davdi Silverrock wrote: > > > > >I don't buy it. She is able to lead an army, with all of the > > >attention that that requires, and can't be bothered to take the two > > >seconds to peform a single spell? > > > > > > > > > > > Well, there's also the healing that she was going to perform on Vlad's > > arm in Issola. Really, I think my primary objection to this line of > > thinking is that it says that Sethra is confounded simply by her life > > state--which is, to her, almost as much a "matter of engineering" as it > > is to the Necromancer. > > > > I find that possibility much more improbable than the alternative. > > Well, another idea that occurred to me is that Sethra Lavode *is* > capable of learning and changing, so that as she becomes more used to > dealing with being undead, she feels more confident of her ability to > control any side-effects of her undead state (if there even actually > are any, of course). Especially after the improvements to the Orb > after the Interregnum, which I am sure Sethra took full advantage of > (especially with teleportation, given your counterexample below). > > > >Bah. It's not like she was trying to move a sofa or something. > > > > > Well, considering Sethra's sofas are madeof solid stone, even *that* > > task isn't as easy as it might seem. ;-) > > Heh. > > > > > > >Incidentally, I thought of another point: When Sethra teleports > > >Aliera, note that there is indeed a rather unfortunate side-effect to > > >Aliera's soul. Perhaps, maybe, because of Sethra's undead state? > > > > > > > > Interesting notion, although Sethra herself seems to imply that it was > > more the impending explosion of amorphia that put her off saving Aliera > > than anything else. Also, remember those countless teleports she did > > bewteen Dzur Mountain and Castle Black right after the ninth (or Tenth) > > Seige of Dzur Mountain... With no untoward after effects. > > > > > > >So it seems to me that they were pretty sure that under no > > >circumstances would Sethra Lavode *ever* perform the gene-scan > > >herself, despite being intimately involved in the whole mess. Which > > >to me implies that there is *something* that would prevent her (or > > >very strongly discourage her) from doing so. > > > > > > > > > > Well, it seems likely that the Sorceress in Green knows Sethra better > > than anyone else alive at the time the conspriacy was formed (or at > > least has known her for longer than anyone else). It was likely a > > calculated gamble as to how Sethra would react given the circumstances. > > And I wouldn't put it past the Sorceress in Green to be able to *invent* > > something that would distract Sethra at the critical moment, either. > > (Faking an attack from the Jenoine? Or even inviting a *real* attack, > > perhaps?) > > > > Hm. I suspect that if Sethra Lavode figured out that the SiG had > invited a Jenoine attack, the SiG would not have been revivifiable. > > But it need not have been anything so drastic. As you say... perhaps > it was just that as the Sethras approached Norathar, StY psionically > told the SiG: "We're here! Quick, distract her!" > > And thus the SiG communicated to Sethra Lavode something mundane that > did actually require her attention, while StY said "I'll perform the > genescan". And Sethra Lavode walked away from Norathar, in a bad mood > about the whole business. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://dragaera.info/pipermail/dragaera/attachments/20051204/bdb88a8e/attachment.html