[Dragaera] A passing comment of Sethra's

[Philip Hart]

On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Bryan Newell wrote:

>>> "Should I happen to not be around when Lady Teldra
>>> wakes up, you will not forget to give her my
>>> regards?" p.253(pb) ISSOLA
>>>
>>> It struck my wife as significant, because she read
>>> it as "In case I'm no longer around when..." which
>>> implies that Sethra has either divined, intuited,
>>> suspects, fears or has had prophesied that her
>>> demise is imminent
>
>> do we know via Paarfi if Sethra survives until Norathar's reign?
>
> I finished a reread of /Five Hundred Years After/ this morning, and Paarfi
> mentions this precise subject at the very end of chapter 34:


> 	"Sethra had only managed to bring Aliera's body; Aliera's
> life-essence, or soul, was ripped from her body in the maelstrom of elder
> sorcery which was even then beginning to cascade through the city, and her
> soul found its way no on knew where.  Indeed, Sethra herself thought for
> many years that it had never escaped the fall, but had been destroyed along
> with so many others.  It is not impossible that the belief that she had
> failed accounts for Sethra's vanishing from human intercourse, if, indeed,
> she has not met her fate in some awful battle or tragic mischance."


I'm a bit confused about this, since if _FHYA_ is post-Vlad then Paarfi 
well knows that Aliera has been restored, and if he doesn't know that then
the book is pre-Vlad.