----- Original Message ----- From: "James Griffin" <umbraenoctis at hotmail.com> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 11:51 AM Subject: Re: Yuck > >So what does "dead" mean? > > yes :) > > I think, however that if we re-read Issola, that we may find "those . . > whose usefulness has not expired with their death, and are sent out into the > world once more as un-dead: I (Sethra Lavode) became one of these some time > ago." (not exact quote, AFB at the moment.) I think this clearly implies > that undead are not re-incarnated (a la Dolivar/Vlad or Kieron's Shaman > Brother/Aliera), but are also not "living"- the Necromancer is referred to > as undead, but I can't recall she is termed a vampire- except perhaps by > implication. Again in Issola "The two undead women faced each other . . > although Sethra was a vampire, the Necromancer looked more like one- wasted, > pale, some hideous disease." (again not an exact quote) > > So undead= not "living", useful to gods, doesn't eat much (Sethra), may be a > vampire (Sethra). > > James Griffin > > Still Another Vlad faN > Well, if I am making the right assumption, the Necromancer "created" the undead body that this portion of her personality in habits in Dragaera. Sethra, on the other hand, wears her own reanimated corpse. That could account for the difference. jeff -here lies my beloved ZOE , somewhat less attractive now that she is all corpsefied and gross. . .