K Kuhn <kknolte at ecity.net> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 02/27/2006 09:25 AM Please respond to kknolte at ecity.net To Maximilian Wilson <wilson.max at gmail.com> cc Dragaera List <dragaera at dragaera.info> Subject Re: Dragaerans and learning (was re: the honing of Vlad) >be competent might not be a good idea? Or just an example of how even >very intelligent people can overlook stuff until it bites them, >especially if it makes a good story? And especially when they get set in their ways. If Sethra has been defending Dragaera against attack by the Jenoine for 230,000 years, she probably identified very early on that the Greater Sea might be a target, but that the Orb protected it somehow, so she didn't need to worry about it. Then, when Adron's Disaster happens, a scant 450 years ago, she doesn't stop to consider that this new source of amorphia is something that needs protecting. After all, protecting an amorphia source isn't something she's had to really consider since the founding of the Empire. Mayhap she's just not in the habit? Plus, she was far more concerned about protecting everything else, since the Orb had gone away, and she knew that if the Jenoine came back in force during the Interregnum, they were all in big trouble. Majikjon