[Dragaera] Verra and the Paths of the Dead

[Jon Lincicum]

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From: "Scott Schultz" <scott at cjhunter.com>
> >We knowof (but have not seen ) one time when Verra was not doing her
> >job. She concived a child with Adron.
> >I doubt that was work. Unless she was planning to have her child die &
> >be resurrected for some cosmic cause.
> >No reasonable god would use their own child like that.
> 
> It seems clear to me that when you're talking about the motivations of the 
> Lords of Judgement that "reasonable" is a word that simply doesn't apply. 
> You can't really expect to apply human understanding to the gods.
> 
> Concerning Verra specifically, keep in mind a couple of things. She's been 
> described, essentially, as the goddess of perversity. She's the embodiment 
> of mischief, chaos, capriciousness; the random arbritrariness of life, as 
> Teldra puts it. This is why Teldra advises Vlad not to put his entire faith 
> in her. It's her nature to be, for lack of a better word, flighty and 
> unpredictable.
> 
> It also seems, given Sethra's narrative about the vial of blood, that Verra 
> is not so much prescient as pre-intuitive. She might have had a child with 
> Adron because of a nagging feeling that it was a good idea, without 
> neccesarily forseeing any of the events that lay ahead in the life of that 
> child.

Or maybe it was just because Devera told her to.

A theory I've been pondering recently is this:

Verra might be a double-agent, who is still working FOR the Jenoine. 

I've still got to work some of the kinks out of the idea (Why does she appear to work so hard against them in /Issola/? Why do the Jenoine appear to want to kill her? Wouldn't the other gods have some clue as to her treachery? etc.)

But it might explain a number of other nagging questions. 

Thoughts?

Majikjon