Dragaera

How?

Wed Jun 28 10:37:20 PDT 2006

>For one 
>instance the Seorli( I believe ) in "Dragon" which 
>Morralon took after about Spellbreaker/Godslayer/Lady Tledra. 

If you're asking whether the Serioli in question was talking about
Godslayer, then the answer would be a qualified "yes". I say "qualified"
because he referred to "Remover of aspects of divinity" as something that
didn't fully exist yet. To the Serioli, the Great Weapons were "people" in
their own right. The following quote from _Dragon_ is telling:
---
"Good day to you", said Morrolan, adding a sound at the end that we either
the cough of a man with Juiner's Lung or the name of the Serioli we faced.
"His name - your pardon - the Easterner's name is Vlad Taltos, the Jhereg is
called Loiosh."

"You don't mention the fourth, because we've met already; but why do you
leave out the fifth? Because she is not altogether here?"...

...Morrolan said "Who is the fifth?" 

"Who indeed?", said the Serioli, nodding sagaciously as if Morrolan had said
something wise.
---

Given subsequent events, it seems the proper way to look at this exchange is
that the Serioli, who evidently treated each Great Weapon as person in its
own right, is interpreting Morollan's question as "Who is the personality
template of Godslayer?" If you prefer, "Whose soul provides her
personality?" Notice that the Serioli refers to Godslayer as "she" from the
beginning. This all would make perfect sense to someone whose sense of time
seems to have no trouble encompassing the past, present and future
simultaneously. At this point in the exchange, he doesn't know that Morollan
and Vlad have no clue about Godslayer. When Morollan is confused and Vlad
has no objections when the Serioli says "But maybe I'm giving away
secrets..." then he tries to explain in terms that they'll understand.

>Another how did Mario get out of "the paths of the dead" b/c 
>Aleria was trap there as was the "orb" 
>and Sethra became a vapmire. 

On the one hand, keep in mind that officially we don't know anything about
Mario. He may well be dead and reincarnated. Mario's reputation was based on
his success at murdering the Emperor. His name is invoked in the name of
lost causes. "Might as well hire Mario to do it." Nobody seems to actually
know how to get hold of him. If he's "worked" since the Interregnum, it
hasn't been reported to us except as rumor and speculation. He may not exist
at all except as a legendary boogey man.

Presuming that Paarfi is dependable on this point, we also know that Sethra
was attempting to save him at the same time as she attempted to save Aliera
and the Orb. The Orb arrived in The Halls of Judgement. Aliera's soul did
not. Mario is a question mark. Assuming that he's really out and about
(Steve apparently once suggested that Mario had shown up to visit Aliera
"off-stage" just before a scene in, I think, Yendi), then he didn't escape
the Halls - He never arrived there at all. Indeed, the strain of trying to
put the Orb into the Halls while putting Mario and Aliera someplace outside
of the Halls at the same time is likely what resulted in the loss of
Aliera's soul. <speculation>Aliera's body ended up in the Halls while her
soul got trapped in a field, probably on the same spot that Mario
landed.</speculation> If true, it would also answer the question from a
while back as to where Verra got a body to put Aliera's soul into later on.

>Also while Dereva was (presumely) that 
>dragon during the fight with Jenione, was she the same one who was (I 
>blieve) either upset or "it" reconzie Vlad when him and Dark Star went 
>to reunited Aleria to the land of the living.

Maybe, but there's no way to know. I suspect not, if only because it was
more concerned with impeding their progress. Whether it had its own agenda
or not, it was an obstacle that was overcome only because the Cycle had
Dragon rising. If the current reign had been anything other than Phoenix, I
believe that meeting would have had a significantly different outcome. No
way to tell, though.

>Third: Do not miss understand I love Brust and the writings of Paarfi 
>but to one such as my self they are too ambugious, and sometimes 
>cliff-hangers. 

Steve likes to leave hooks to build other stories onto. That and to make
people like us speculate about things like this. *heh*

>Such as the window(s) in Dark Star's tower, how did Verra 
>get it there was it already a 

Logical answers go out the window when you're talking about a gift from the
Gods. It just "is". The how's and why's are pretty much irrelevant.

>um what did the Demon and so-and-so ( 
>sorry I forgot) a place where gods meterializes and the special portals 
>( the cave where Zekia/ Ziva inmuge from the "Halls of Judgement"

I think you left out part of this sentence. Care to re-phrase?