"Davdi Silverrock" <davdisil at gmail.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 06/05/06 08:06 AM To "Dragaera List" <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject Re: Life-states >I would assert that Aliera was made entirely alive in the Paths of the >Dead, because of what you note. Aliera is indeed a special case, an >exception to most of the rules. I am entirely of the same opinion, Aliera is clearly alive. I just didn't see how that fit in with your definitions. Although she is, as you note, an entirely unique case. >I would suggest that Verra was able to return Aliera to the state of >being alive because of a combination of factors: (1) Verra was >intimately familiar with Aliera's body, since she gave birth to Aliera >in the first place. Thus, Verra was able to either re-create Aliera's >body exactly, or retrieve it from the exact point in spacetime where >it disappeared. (2) The Paths of the Dead is the sort of place that >enables close manipulation of the soul and of life-states, so Verra, >once she had Aliera's body back, was able to bind Aliera's soul to >that body in such a way as to return it to being alive, rather than >undead. Again, close familiarity with Aliera's body and soul could >well have been a decisive factor. (3) Devera may have helped. Well, we don't really know what happened to Aliera's body when it was wrenched away from her soul during Adron's Disaster. Perhaps it got pulled, along with the Orb, to the Paths, where it appeared just in time to be reunited with her soul? Time does funny things in the Paths, after all. This would make it almost just a straightforward case of revivification. Majikjon