[Dragaera] The Chaos Stone

[Jeff]

> Vlad: "So, Morrolan.  Does the Empress know you study this stuff?" 
> (Meaning Elder Sorcery)
> Morrolan: "I believe I have failed to mention it to her."
>
> Also:
>
> Vlad: "So ... you collect Morganti blades?  Does the Empire know?"
> Morrolan: "They know, but don't do anything about it.  It is something 
> they can use to hassle me if they ever have a need."
>
> I'll grant you that both of these are very loosely paraphrased, but it's 
> approximately the same point -- that yes, the Empire knows, but the Duke 
> of Southmoor (like, no doubt, the Duke of Eastmanswatch, Adron e'Kieron) 
> is a powerful and influential person and though they COULD up and toss him 
> in jail because he's studying/collecting the damn stuff, they DON'T --  
> unless he's going to act up, or is acting up, and they need an excuse.
>
> Did the Empire know that Aliera was studying the Elder Sorcery?  Does a 
> dzur crap in the woods?  Is the Empress a Dragaeran?  Of course.  The 
> Consort Noima would have many ways of acquiring this information, but 
> remember -- she has the indirect power of influence, not the direct power 
> of rank/title/position.  She, I think, played the very good odds (9:2, I'd 
> say) that Aliera would, out of simple habit, have a chaos stone amongst 
> her possessions.
>
> Besides, it was fate.  Or the Cycle.  It's hard to tell the difference...
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> S. Thomas Crain
> Author-in-Training
>

One wonders if it was the Orb. Being what it is, I would think that another 
object that manipulates chaos would be known to it, especially if in close 
proximity. Something along the line of a small mass affecting a larger one, 
even if minutely.

jeff
-picturing eddies in the space time continuum.