[Dragaera] An extraordinarily convenient disease...

[Jose Marquez]

Davdi Silverrock wrote:
> On 3/2/07, Scott  wrote:
>   
>>> The recent new wiki page on Baronet Taltos has reminded me that I have
>>> had vaguely paranoid notions that Vlad's father was killed
>>> deliberately, almost certainly by Verra, for the purpose of isolating
>>> Vlad.
>>>       
>>> I am just curious if this makes sense to anyone else, or if I am once
>>> again alone in my idiosyncratic pararectal ideation.
>>>       
>> Plagues are a relatively common occurrence in the Easterner Ghetto.
>>     
>
> Are they?  I don't recall any textev that would indicate this.  Also
> consider: Vlad's father avoided the Easterner ghetto, except when
> specifically visiting his father.
>   

I can't speak to plague textev, but as you note below, Vlad caught the 
plague. Vlad's father didn't need to go to the Easterner ghetto to 
contract it; Vlad could have had it and passed it on.
> Although speaking of plagues, now I wonder if the Easterner population
> has been kept so backwards, technologically and otherwise, for 250,000
> years because whenever someone the population gets too high a plague
> kills off the surplus. Or if an Easterner invents something
> particularly clever, a more targeted plague kills the inventor and
> everyone who knows about the invention.
>
> Would the gods stoop to biowarfare?  I kinda think they would.
>   

I'd be curious to know if there are Accelerationist factions among the 
gods. Perhaps Tri'nagore?

Jose

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