Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 01/09/06 12:38 PM To Dragaera List <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject Re: the honing of Vlad (Some Issola spoilers) >Hm. And Kiera would have more knowledge of just how much Vlad has >been used as a tool (by the Jhereg, for those various assassinations). > >And yet, I think Sethra's wrong, above. In fact, I think she has >neglected to take into account that (a) people can change, and (b) >Easterners, having shorter lives, when they do change, change much >faster than the Dragaerans that she's more used to dealing with. And >Vlad has definitely been changing in the past few years of his exile. >And, really, he *wasn't* happy about being used as a tool without his >knowledge. Well, as I believe someone else said recently, nobody's 100% consistent. This includes Vlad, Sethra, and SKZB. >I was thinking about that chapter in /Issola/ as well, recently - Vlad >is *very* pissy with Sethra, at the start there. Speculating about >that scene, perhaps he felt a bit betrayed by someone he thought he >could trust. That is, sitting in Dzur Mountain, as he had been those >(relatively few) years before when he first met Sethra, it may have >occurred to him that his button-man Quion might have been discovered >to have been thinking of skipping out with a chunk of gold by Kiera, >and that's how *that* particular manipulation was set up. So Vlad >ranted at Sethra a bit when he remembered that/deduced that. Perhaps. > Or, heck, maybe he figured that Kiera "conspired" with Quion on the >embezzlement (with any reservations Quion might have had having been >removed by Morrolan's idea-implantation). At any rate, definitely a >reason to be pissy. Never underestimate the power of the hissy-cow. Majikjon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://dragaera.info/pipermail/dragaera/attachments/20060109/4b5ac211/attachment-0001.htm