On 6/29/06, Jon_Lincicum at stream.com <Jon_Lincicum at stream.com> wrote: > 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? Maybe... but in /Jhereg/, Vlad does have that line that says something like, "Though the millenia, Aliera has always been just a little bit faster than me," which implies a long association, multiple incarnations, and at least a visceral memory of previous incarnations. Or I'm reading too much into a fatalistic verbal grimace. -Max -- Be pretty if you are, Be witty if you can, But be cheerful if it kills you.