On 2/1/06, Jon_Lincicum wrote: > Davdi Silverrock wrote > > >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. Well, I think it *may* be significant that she explicitly states that it is her blood "that the Halls of Judgment cannot hold me." I *think* that that could be counted as at least one clue that she was hinting something when she said it. After all, she could easily have said something like "I'm a god, therefore I can leave the Halls of Judgement with no problems" (leaving the underlying mechanism opaque to Vlad) (although there's still Aliera's statement as another hint, which I am pretty sure was unintended by Aliera). But as you say, that's not really enough of a clue to determine Verra's *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. Good point. I can even speculate it as a sequence of events in Morrolan's future (because I have been pondering Paarfi's reference to Morrolan's appearance in the past tense at the end of SL): Morrolan, because of the infusion of godblood, apotheosisizes [1], with Verra showing up as his sponsor-god (or something like that). Observers of this event argue that that means that Verra has *always* had a special bond with Morrolan, while in fact she is just trying to make the best of the series of accidents that lead to the creation of this new god. > 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.) Ah, but recall: People hear the words of the gods differently. It might be very interesting indeed to see what *Morrolan* heard when Verra was speaking. > This raises (yet again) the question: who's more unreliable, Vlad or > Paarfi? Well, yes. ________________________________________________ 1: (someone is definitely going to smack me for that one)