[Dragaera] Verra and the Paths of the Dead

[Alain Feeny]

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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?

My first thought is where did you dig up such a fanciful notion?  What  
tidbit of verbage is leading you to believe Vera is a double agent?