On 10:27 AM Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote: > Not one of these people has really been "allowed" to leave by the > gods. > Each one of them had a reason why the Paths could not hold them in. > I contend that no intervention by the gods was made to "allow" them > out in any of these cases. So you think that vial of blood was taken without the gods' approval? If the gods can say that Vlad can leave only once, we have to wonder what will stop him from leaving a second time - unless the gods "allowed" him to leave the first time. >The only one of these that had full Dragaeran blood when she left was >Zerika, and she had the Orb (and through it, all the power of the Greater >Sea of Chaos) helping her. If this does not actually make her a goddess, >it comes as close as a normal mortal can, methinks. > Which even supports the gods allowed her to leave. The only part of this argument that I don't get is why there is one category for all these different reasons, and another category for Sethra. As far as I know, Sethra is also unique.