Dragaera

Loraan, souls, and the Paths of the Dead

Peter H. Granzeau pgranzeau at cox.net
Tue Jun 13 15:24:46 PDT 2006

At 01:19 PM 6/13/2006, Howard Brazee wrote:
>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?

Which raises the question:  How?

>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.

We know that much!

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Regards, Pete
pgranzeau at cox.net