"James Griffin" <umbraenoctis at hotmail.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 06/02/06 02:07 PM To dragaera at dragaera.info cc Subject Re: Yuck >>From: Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> >> >>On 12:51 PM James Griffin wrote: >>> So undead= not "living", useful to gods, doesn't eat much (Sethra), >>> may be a vampire (Sethra). >> >>And someone who is just waiting to be re-born is simply dead (even though >>they walk and talk and fit the definition of "alive"). And Westerners >>who are dead are really dead. >> > >And wear purple robes. (sometimes) Actually, the ones in purple robes are not waiting around to reincarnate, they are in service to the LoJ and aren't *allowed* to reincarnate until their service is up. The ones who are just "waiting around" are in the "Place of Waiting Souls" (which may be in the Paths or the Halls, but Vlad doesn't make this clear). Or else they are Ghosts. Vlad has a digression in /Teckla/ where he talks about this (in reference to the Ghost of Franz), which I believe includes the very first reference in the books (by publishing date, anyway) to the "Book of the Seven Wizards". Majikjon