Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 02/01/06 12:51 PM To Dragaera List <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject Re: the honing of Vlad >On 2/1/06, Jon_Lincicum wrote: >> This assumes that she would be able to come up with the idea that a blood >> transfusion to Morrolan would work. >> >> This possibiliy may simply not have occurred to her. >> >> She may not be as clever as Vlad was; he's pretty creative, after all. >> > >Perhaps. Yet Vlad got the idea of the blood transfusion from Verra's >remarks that at least part of being a god was in the blood (Indeed, >citing specifically: "My blood is the blood of a god. It is for this >reason that the Halls of judgment cannot hold me.") Although there is >also Aliera's similar statement about her own blood, I see. > >Was Verra truly not hinting to Vlad the direction he should be thinking? I don't there's any question he was inferring this from her comments, but was she deliberately implying this by making them? I honestly don't think we have enough clues to determine her exact intentions. >Who can say? Of course, it's also possible that the entire "Verra-has-special-plans-for-Morrolan" angle is simply Paarfi propoganda. In the two instances where *Vlad* has witnessed Verra meeting Morrolan (in /Taltos/ and /Issola/), there seemingly hasn't been any special kind of connection there. (At least not that he has commented on.) This raises (yet again) the question: who's more unreliable, Vlad or Paarfi? Majikjon