Steve Simmons <scs at di.org> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 01/12/06 07:56 AM To Scott Schultz <scott at cjhunter.com> cc 'Dragaera List' <dragaera at dragaera.info> Subject Vampire/Necromancer/Loraan speculation >On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:20:00AM -0800, Scott Schultz wrote: > >The Necromancer is noted as being "undead", a word which most Dragaerans >seems to use interchangably with "vampire." But it is not unreasonable >to suppose that her own skills could return her, or even make her >'undead' without the normal process of dying. Perhaps this process is >required to work in her area of expertise, and Sethra has been studying >with her. This might well explain Sethras condition without requiring >her to have actually been killed, and the things she said to Vlad about >dying and returning were simplifications (you know, lies) to avoid trying >to explain the nearly inexplicable. Nah, unlikely. > >The common man (ie, Vlad, etc) knows that the undead are vampires who >are returned by the Gods for their own purposes. Thus everyone who is >undead (a vampire) must have been returned by the Gods. Are all undead Vampires? Are there no Wraiths, Wights, Zombies, Were-Wolves, or their ilk? >If Loraan was working in the same area, it might well explain how he >came back as a 'vampire' without requiring the Gods to send him back. >(Note for the nit-picky: no, there's no textev that the Gods were or >weren't involved in returning him as a vampire. It just seems odd that >they'd do it.) And do we know that Loraan was a Vampire? Is the Necromancer a Vampire? I seem to remember Vlad implying that there are other types of undead, and that Sethra just happened to be a Vampire, but I can't remember what book this is from. Majikjon