[Dragaera] [Dzur Spoiler][Orca Spoiler] A slip of the tongue...

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"Noel Weer" <noel.weer at gmail.com> 
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>On 8/23/06, Maximilian Wilson <wilson.max at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 8/23/06, Jeff <Log0n5150 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> > From: "Maximilian Wilson" <wilson.max at gmail.com>
>> > > Morrolan's not reliable? Or is anything said in the Vlad novels
>> > > suspect because it's filtered through Vlad?
>>
>> > When has Morrolan stated that Sethra is a Dragon? Besides, I don't 
recall
>> > her telling him when they met, and we have seen him jump to the wrong
>> > conclusion before. . .
>>
>> Morrolan identified Sethra as a Dzurlord in /Taltos/, before they
>> descended Deathgate Falls. They've known each other for two hundred
>> forty-three-odd years, so what she may or may not have told him at
>> first meeting is not an issue here. I agree that Morrolan can be
>> wrong, but in that case you'll have to admit that the "reliable
>> sources" you requested don't exist, apart from Sethra herself (and
>> maybe Verra, but probably not).
>
>
>I began my habitual re-read of the entire series after the release of
>a new book, and finished /Jhereg/ today. I do not have it in front of
>me, but there was a conversation between Aliera and Vlad on the topic
>of the impending Dragon-Jhereg War that went a little like this:
>
>V: Where is Sethra?
>A: Dzur Mountain, preparing for a war.
>V: Is she convinced it will come to that?
>A: *shrug* But we Dragons always plan to win.
>
>At the time, I remembered this email thread about the topic of Sethra
>as Dzur or Dragon and considered the dialogue a source pointing to
>Sethra as a one of the latter.
>
>I still consider her to be both, myself.
>Perhaps one of the earliest experiments before the various animal
>natures were fully seperated?

...or perhaps Sethra was an unauthorized experiment created by 
Verra--before she acquired divinity--as a part of her revolt against the 
Jenoine?

Majikjon