On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Claire Rojstaczer wrote: > Morrolan and Aliera looked at me, then at each other. Morrolan cleared > his throat and said, 'It varies. Some are actually Jenoine who > survived the creation of the Great Sea of Chaos. Others are servants > of theirs who manage to adapt when it occured.'" > > How can we mesh this with Sethra's version of events? > > Issola, 35: > "The gods are beings who are able to manifest in at least two places at > once. . . . The Jenoine, for all their talents and skills, cannot be in > two places at once." > > and Issola, 37: > ". . .it is clear that it was Verra, and a few others, who sabotaged > [the Jenoine's] work, who created the Great Sea of Amorphia, who > unleashed upon the world that which we call sorcery, who themselves > became the first of those we know as gods, and who destroyed all of the > Jenoine who then lived on this world." > > The obvious answer is that Morrolan's mistaken, but can anyone come up > with a cleverer reading? Nice catch - I certainly hadn't noted the above. Conceivably "a few others" might be renegade Jenoine who helped Verra. The "for all their talents" bit might mean, "The J haven't figured out how to be in two places at once" [which I'm going to christen "duplocate" if no one else has] or haven't achieved (or aren't able naturally to achieve) the ability (which might be associated with amorphia and thus associated with Dragaera only). Also note that along with M being wrong, Vlad could be reporting incorrectly. He was under a bit of stress at the time.