[Dragaera] Ideas for future novels *SPOILERS*

[J C]

Looking around at a list of animals and their traits I was struck by a 
couple ideas that maybe Steve might find useful.

Keep in mind that there are a number of dangling plot points that have yet 
to be tied up, and that they may appear in any of these stories.

Lyorn -- A lyorn represents tradition.  This book might have something to do 
with Vlad trying to take the role of Noish-pa for his son, if Noish-pa 
himself can't (he is, after all, very old, witch or not)

Tiassa -- If Lady Teldra hasn't woken up in the forthcoming book, perhaps 
something might happen in Tiassa that provokes her to "consciousness" or 
perhaps Vlad intuits a number of things about himself/the gods/his purpose 
etc.

Tsalmoth -- almost certainly involves Verra in large quantities.  can't have 
a book about "unpredictability" without the Demon Goddess of Chaos poking 
her nose in every now and then.

Vallista -- This book might have something to do with Vlad trying to build a 
household for himself, Vlad Norathar, and maybe even Cawti against what is 
sure to be heavy opposition from any number of potential sources.  This 
assumes a number of things:  Cawti and him get back together, Vlad becomes a 
responsible father upon his discovery of  VN's existence, that Vlad doesn't 
work out a deal with some of those "potential sources" or downright scare 
them off with Lady Teldra to prevent them from opposing his attempt to live 
a normal life.

Iorich -- might involve Vlad coming clean about his past to someone, most 
probably someone who doesn't serve in an official capacity :P  Perhaps this 
includes him making his own kind of reparations to those he perceives as 
victims of his younger days.  It will probably include a rendition of the 
earliest of Vlad's incarcerations, possibly as reminiscences (possibly after 
restoring his memory to pre-Verra levels)

Chreotha -- I imagine this will deal with the Jhereg's greatest attempt to 
do unto Vlad.

Jhegaala -- No real point in speculating at this point.

The Final Contract -- This is supposed to deal with Godslayer's purpose, 
which is apparently to kill Verra, or at least render her unable to manifest 
in a certain way.  There are at least three planes on which Verra can 
manifest:  the mortal plane, the halls of Judgement, and her own halls.  
Given that Blackwand isn't as good as Godslayer at slaying gods, it's been 
speculated that killing with Godslayer renders a God unable to manifest in 
ANY plane.  But given who and what Verra is, I find that unlikely.

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