Dragaera

Sethra Lavode (Large spoilers, esp Orca/Issola)

Howard Brazee howard at brazee.net
Tue Jun 13 12:02:07 PDT 2006

On 12:42 PM Maximilian Wilson wrote:
>  The problem I see with that is, why not have Kiera steal the staff
>  from Loraan instead? She'd be at least as good at it as Sethra would,
>  and presumably better than either Morrolan or Vlad.

We have seen some long-term effects of Vlad being there.

And we have seen elsewhere that the powers-that-be do work with 
long-term plans, sometimes without knowing how or why they are doing stuff.

So Vlad had to be there.