"Martin Wohlert" <martin_wohlert at hotmail.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 06/14/06 07:13 AM To dragaera at dragaera.info cc Subject Re: Loraan, souls, and the Paths of the Dead >Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote: >>Sethra is full Dragaeran blood. > >Is she? I'm not claiming that she isn't, but living 200 000 years isn't >really usual... > >She's a "mystery wrapped in an enema"*... ;) > > >*Terry Pratchett quote. Well, it's true that you never really know for sure when you're talking about Sethra, but if she wasn't of Dragaeran blood, she wouldn't have gone to the Paths in the first place. Does this prove "full Dragaeran blood"? No. Aliera is not "full Dragaeran blood" yet no one implied that she didn't belong in the Paths during /Taltos/. Sethra's longevity may be genetic, or may be as a result of something totally different. I'd guess it's something different. It usually is, with her. Of course, Sethra's experience when visiting the Halls of Judgment is different from the other four examples (or, at least, it is implied to be) in that she is supposed to have actually been dead when she got there. The others, apart from Aliera, were very much alive. (Does being trapped in a wooden staff count as "alive"? hmmmm) Majikjon