That's Mr. Douglas Adams you're thinking of. I was thinking, "Sethra chose the vampire thing herself, because she was going through a Anne Rice/Laurell K. Hamilton phrase and just never told anyone when she grew out of it." Then I realized I might actually accept that if Steve did it. Our author is evil. On 6/4/06, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > > > > On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Davdi Silverrock wrote: > > > While we have no specific examples of Sethra shapeshifting, there is a > > definite example in the Dragaeraverse of someone who shapeshifted and > > retained her ability to think, and presumably at least sufficient > > magical ability to shift back to her original form. > > You're talking about someone shapeshifting into the form of a thinking > being, though. (Someone who can do rather more surprising things, like > defy causality.) > > Otoh at least one of the gods is rather like a hyperintelligent shade > of blue, so whatever. > >