[Dragaera] Just got ahold of Dzur

[Davdi Silverrock]

On 8/26/06, Damien Sullivan <phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 11:41:18AM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> > On 8/26/06, Steve Rapaport <steve at romlin.com> wrote:
> > > (And read it at one sitting.  Too short!)
> > >
> > > But now that I'm skimming through the last 2 weeks' spoilers on the list, a
> > > couple of late answers:
> > > (spoilers)
Sir
Eglamore
was
a
valiant
knight,
fa la lanky down dilly,
He
took
up
his
sword
and
he
went
to
fight,
fa la lanky down dilly.
>
> > > * Why is simply giving South Adrilankha up to whatever faction not an option
> > > for Cawti or Vlad?  Neither of them wants it.  How is Vlad saving Cawti
> > > somehow by helping?  I expect I'll catch this on the second time through.
> >
> > Interesting question. She needs *some* source of income.  And there's
>
> Does she?  I think Vlad's dropped enough numbers for us to know what
> income some levels of society get, and how that compares with assassin's
> fees, and Vlad's "can purchase a castle" wealth.
>

Yes, indeed.

I've been under the impression that Cawti was independantly wealthy
from her years as the Dagger, and unlike Vlad, didn't blow her savings
on partying and such.  Vlad didn't leave her South Adrilankha because
she needed income, but rather because she had a personal interest in
its fate.

Which is why she can't just let the place go.  Those are *her people*,
dammit, and they stood by her when she was in trouble on their behalf
(remember the Revolt of 244!), and she is not going to stand aside and
let the place fall into the same old cycle of poverty and predation.

Or something to that effect, anyway.

And I get the sense that Vlad starts to feel the same way as he
investigates what's going on in South Adrilankha.  Yes, the only one
he really cared about was Noish-pa, but we see that he has another
quasi-friend there, and it seems clear that he starts to feel a
certain sympathy for the people there as he interacts with them.

Speaking of the Dagger, a notion about why Mario still calls her that:
 It's to remind himself that she's still a potentially deadly killer,
for all that she's gone into semi-retirement.  Vlad has an attachment
to her and can lose sight of that; Mario can't afford the carelessness
of thinking of her as being anything less deadly than she is.