"Peter H. Granzeau" <pgranzeau at cox.net> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 06/29/06 01:00 PM To Brust list <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject RE: Old Age? >I am a bit confused. > >Wasn't there a point made (in _Jhereg_)that Vlad's soul is actually a >brother to Keiron the Conqueror, the founder of the Jhereg? > >Maybe souls are sent back, but the individual who receives the >recycled sould evidently doesn't have a memory. And I have no idea >why Vlad received the soul of a Dragaeran--maybe the gods wanted a >"quick fix" for something, and to beings that live 2 or 3 millenia, a >human lifetime is almost like nothing at all? Perhaps Dolivar died, went to the Halls of Judgment, spent 240,000 years as a purple robe, then as "punishment" for betraying Kieron, was allowed only to reincarnate as an Easterner? Majikjon