Maximilian Wilson <wilson.max at gmail.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 01/10/06 08:25 AM To SKZB List <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject Re: the honing of Vlad (was Re: How much does Vlad *really* knowabout Kragar?) >On 1/10/06, Jon_Lincicum at stream.com <Jon_Lincicum at stream.com> wrote: >> I'm not sure this follows. >> >> How often does a soul of the e'Kieron line get reincarnated as an >> Easterner? And how often, when that *does* happen, does the Easterner >> become aware of that fact while he's alive? And have friends close at hand >> who can teach him to use those abilities without destroying himself? >> >> Vlad may, in fact, be the first, and only, Easterner who's learned Elder >> Sorcery. Seems likely, in fact. > >But nobody needed to teach Vlad how to use amorphia. He just did it, >under stress. Aliera was needed only to stop him from destroying >Adrilankha in the process. So the existence of Vlad's powerful friends >makes it not more but less likely that Vlad's Elder Sorcery adventures >will get into the history books. (And I thought we were _refuting_ the That's why I said "...friends close at hand who can teach him to use those abilities /without destroying himself/..." How likely is it that Vlad's name will get into the history books if the city he's living in had erupted into a 3rd Sea of Amorphia? Certainly, the *event* would be remembered, but would anybody ever have known it was Vlad? >hypothesis that it was an innate ability of Easterners and not just >e'Kierons to use amorphia.) The only thing required in Vlad's first >instance were a link to the Orb and a suitable desperation. The only >point in favor of this hypothesis is that Easterners with links to the >Orb may be a relatively new (post-Interrugnum) thing. Then again, >there's that Easterner that Khaavren mistook for an Athyra... Vlad would not have known to *try* to use amorphia if he hadn't just had that little talk with Aliera. And I have my suspicions about how easy it seemed to be for him to tap into that ability. Might have been Verra at work, there, maybe? Majikjon