>It seems (to me) that in sending him back to face the Jenoine in /Issola/ >she doesn't give him much of a choice, but I'd be interested in hearing you >elaborate on your point, here. I don't know that it's a question of choice in this case. There was never any question of Vlad going back. He'd gone to a fair amount of trouble to reach Morollan and Alieara in the first place. His visit with Verra happened as a way to both warn her and to get some advice on how to handle the situation. It wasn't an attempt to escape it. >Certainly, Verra is not "all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful" in the sense of >the god figures of this world usually are. But lack of Omnipotence and Omnicscience >doesn't mean that she's just totally making it up as she goes along. That's Vlad's >specialty, after all. In Verra's case, she's influenced by her Aspect as the goddess of, hmm, "arbitrariness" or "capriciousness" isn't right but I don't remember exactly how Teldra characterized her. In any case, her basic nature would be "chaotic" compared to most of the Lords we've been introduced to. Her strength is that she acts when others are paralyzed by their indecision and formality. Her weakness is that her actions are seldom as well-formulated as they should be and can appear to the uninitiated as being entirely random or even malicious. I imagine that she's pretty much always making it up as she goes along.