On 2/4/06, Francesco Nicoletti <francesco.nicoletti at pacific.net.au> wrote: > Peter H. Granzeau wrote: > > > At 11:23 AM 2/3/2006, Maximilian Wilson wrote: > > > >> > >> My impression is that the Lords of Judgment had something along the > >> lines of this enchantment in place: "no human blood may leave the > >> Halls of Judgment." > >> This ensures that undead (very pale, remember) can leave, and so can > >> Morrolan's corpse. Vlad gets away through the same loophole that got him > >> into Loraan's fortress. > > > > > > As I remember, Dragaerans consider themselves "human", but not > > Easterners (Easterners, of course, reciprocate the thought). Ergo, > > Vlad is not human, thus may leave the Halls. > > > But most of the gods are not Dragaerans either. Many of them helped the > Jenoine create Dragerians from easterners. > I find it hard to beleve they would create a race based loophole when > they created the races. > Not when they created the races, but when they built (or found, or whatever) the Paths of the Dead and the Halls of Judgement. The Paths & the Halls exist to sort out Dragaeran souls; thus Dragaeran souls (and the souls of living Dragaerans) are affected by the "keep the soul here" effect of the Paths & the Halls, except that the effect can also be countered by having god blood. Or something like that, I would guess.